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• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Simple, People

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• God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Struggle, Work Out

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• It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

  John Updike

  Memories, People, Lovely

  John Updike (2009). “My Father's Tears: And Other Stories”, p.202, Random House

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• There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

  Lolo Jones

  Motivational Sports, Hard Work, Athlete

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• Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

  Percy Cerutty

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

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• If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Motivational, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Insightful

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• The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

  Jacque Fresco

  Differences, Serial Killer, Saint

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• Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

  Rick Warren

  Leader, Easy, Hard

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 29, 2012

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• Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

  Ron White

  Baseball, Commitment, Simple

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• Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

  Dee Snider

  Parent, Reasonable, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Thinking, Keys

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• It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Hard

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• I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

  Andy Warhol

  Dream, Art, Things To Do

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

  Dean Norris

  Military, Nice, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Rocks, Shoes, Rock N Roll

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• If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

  James MacDonald

  Use, Signing Off, Happened

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.104, Moody Publishers

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• I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl, Cancer, Stupid

  "Kim Kardashian: my life as a brand" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Mean, Disease

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 29, 2014.

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• You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Two, America

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

  Michael Cera

  Real, Comedy, Figures

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• Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Procrastination, Putting Things Off, Impossible

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• We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, America, Risk

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• ...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none
  other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

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• When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

  Jackie French

  Giving Up, Missing, Hard

  "Jackie French, Author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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