Hard Way Quotes - Page 3

• I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.

  Christine Evangelista

  Pride, Done, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

  Andy Roddick

  Player, League, Down And

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• One lesson I have learned the hard way, and there will not be any such thing in the White House. Although, I am quick to add, there's no evidence that it was ever hacked. And unfortunately, you can't say that for a lot of the government.

  Hillary Clinton

  White, Government, House

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It means "flying through the thunderstorm." That's not to say that there are no basic principles to orient you to the challenge. Indeed, I describe some in the book. But there are no simple recipes. Until you have lived it, you don't really know how to do it. That's what I mean by "leadership the hard way."

  Dov Frohman

  Leadership, Book, Mean

  "Why Leadership Is Like Flying Through a Thunderstorm: An Interview with Dov Frohman". Interiew with Robert Howard, www.leadershipthehardway.com.

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• I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way

  Holly Hunter

  Careers, Office, Way

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• You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

  Bette Davis

  Way, Gravestone, Knows

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• All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

  Billie Holiday

  Dope, Long, People

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”

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• Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Creativity, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.32, Penguin

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• He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted

  Graham Earl

  Fighting, Way, Wanted

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• Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.

  Michael Keaton

  Death, Dying, Way

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• Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

  James Alexander Thom

  Ignorance, Fighting, Self

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• I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.

  Aubrey Newman

  Jobs, Military, Boys

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• I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Way, Knows, Hard

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• Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

  Todd Bridges

  Ice, Two, Skating

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• Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

  Sylvia Plath

  Long, Goal, Trying

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.47, Anchor

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• You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.

  Henry Rollins

  Kindness, Sleep, Home

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• I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Fall, Responsibility, Accountability

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• The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

  Colonel Sanders

  Dream, Foundation, Way

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• It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

  Michael Vick

  Sports, Commitment, Thinking

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• If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Running, Hands, Long

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

  Allison Glock

  Sweet, Men, Opposites

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• One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.

  Anthony Burgess

  Struggle, Writing, Heart

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• We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Fire, Laughing

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• I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

  Edna Ferber

  Doors, Way, Hell

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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• I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Knowing, Hustle, Way

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