"I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]"

-- Ovid

#Excellence Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.”
“About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.”
“We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.”
“We actually have some gay people that work with us, and we have a lot of friends that are gay, too, and I know that this song has inspired them... I know that coming out was tough on their parents and on them and the whole entire family. For a long time, some of them didn't get to hear 'I love you' from their dads or be accepted in that way. ... It's helped a lot of our friends... We don't judge anybody's lives.”
“The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?”
“I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.”
“I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.”
“Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose.”

Source : "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 82, 1994.

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