Particularly sensitive to mood, he was quick to appreciate difficulties and even quicker to give help and support.
"It's just dinner now," said Joseph Savino, a 40-year-old attorney and the county party chairman, who was quick to admit the difficulty of finding young Republicans in the Bronx.
But administrative difficulties were quick to arise.
His flamboyant attitude and quick tongue lead to difficulties with both boys (not wanted) and girls (wanted but unattainable).
This manager also reported difficulty in getting quick answers from his boss about operational questions.
"Both sides" in the Microsoft case, he wrote, "are too quick, however, to minimize the difficulty of how tying law properly applies to software products".
Ehrlich's 606th experiment worked; however, the phrase, with its reliance on magic that defies good sense, has now come to mean "a quick fix to a longstanding difficulty".
Few believe Mr Johnson would have difficulty securing a quick passage back into Parliament if Mr Cameron weakens before 2015 a natural springboard for a leadership bid.The current occupant of 10 Downing Street hardly needs reminding of the need to focus on growth and employment.
What's trickier for service organizations, though, is the difficulty of measuring quick, tangible results.
This thought experiment, first put forth by computing pioneer John Searle, is often trotted out (as I have done) as a quick way of showing the difficulty of defining intelligence.
But Rodriguez, who had been described in press reports as being a "nice guy," was now being described as "a man who was strapped with financial difficulties and sometimes quick to anger".
