The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
Charles Babbage

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
Samuel Smiles

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
Asa Gray

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John Clare

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
H. P. Blavatsky

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
Joseph Lancaster

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Alice James

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
Karl Rove

The difficulty in life is the choice.
George A. Moore

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
F. Murray Abraham

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
Henry Home

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
Brooke Shields

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
Andrzej Wajda

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck