Hard Things Quotes - Page 6

• Worry is a complete circle of inefficient thought whirling about a pivot of fear.  To avoid it, consider whether the problem in hand is your business.  If it is not, turn to something that is.  If it is your business, decide if it is your business now.  If so, decide what is best to be done about it.  If you know, get busy.  If you don't know, find out promptly.  Do these things; then rest your case on the determination that, no matter how hard things may turn out to be, you will amek the best of them - and more than that no man can do.  Dr. Austen Fox Riggs

  John Sedgwick

  Determination, Men, Hands

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• I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

  Chelsea Martin

  Thinking, People, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Love Life, Thinking, Sometimes

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• It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is easy, comedy's hard." I think the broader it gets, if you miss by a millimetre, you've missed completely. It's a very hard thing to do.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Missing, Dying

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.

  Michael K. Williams

  Character, Sadness, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• You want to be confident when you work out because it takes a lot to make you work out. So many women really enjoy it, but it's a hard thing and you have to make yourself do it most of the time. I think you want to feel that you look good to make you want to work out a little bit more.

  Stella McCartney

  Thinking, Work Out, Looks

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them.

  Cheech Marin

  Real, Team, Comedy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Benefits, Moral, Rich

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• Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.

  Richard Cabral

  Actors, West Coast, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poor, Bachelors, Hard

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• I think thinking for yourself is such a hard thing to do, because you just want to fit in in high school. So being comfortable with who you are is such a massive thing for a lot of people.

  Lexi Ainsworth

  School, Thinking, People

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• I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.

  Kevin Sessums

  Writing, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

  Michael Dell

  Easy, Hard

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• The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.

  William James

  Teacher, Thinking, Mind

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

  Ralph Steiner

  Photography, Two, Cameras

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• Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Mean, Writing

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.36, Penguin

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• I think what all the Universal monster movies are defined by, and what makes them very special, is that it's really the only genre entirely unto itself, in which you fear the monster and fear for the monster. That's a very hard thing to do. To fear for and fear at the same time is extremely unique.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Unique, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

  Mackenzie Davis

  People, Superficial, Very Deep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Another hard thing that Gord Downie makes easy: singing ironically. If you don't do it right, you come off like a snarky asshole or the whole thing just falls apart on its own. He has the ability to imbue something ironic with great seriousness, which is the only way to really make it work.

  Steve Berlin

  Fall, Ironic, Singing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Every day you gotta bring it and you gotta perform. If you have one big bad hole and just hit a couple of bad shots at the wrong time, pretty much wrecks the whole day and most cases your whole week. So that's the hard thing about golf.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Couple, Golf, Week

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The news is challenging right now. One hard thing about it is that often things don't lend themselves to good explanations or we don't have enough information. So we are sometimes in pretty murky waters, as everyone is. But it's an era where people's anxiety about what's going on and need to understand what's happening around them has created a real demand for news coverage that's dedicated to filling that need.

  Ezra Klein

  Real, Water, Anxiety

  Source: wwd.com

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• We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.

  Amy Purdy

  Pain, May, Facts

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• The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Perfect, Trying

  "Interview with Grammy-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Loeb". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Middle East, Drones, Nevada

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

  M. Ward

  Realizing, Possibility, Strings

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