“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees...” — Winston Churchill Quote

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

That's the difficulty with free-kicks, as you get one, maybe two, and that's why it's tough. You have to score.

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.