“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
“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.”
“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”
“Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.”
“But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.”
“Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.”