Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Eugene V. Debs

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
Cat Stevens

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Ralph Ellison

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
Haile Gebrselassie

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs

Being alone is very difficult.
Yoko Ono

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni Morrison

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
Mencius

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
Bruce Springsteen