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• I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

  George Rodger

  Cutting, Errors, Self

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• I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.

  Richard Patrick

  Differences, Making A Difference, Way

  "Richard Patrick of Filter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I learned about sex the hard way... from books.

  Emo Philips

  Sex, Book, Way

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• I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

  Carlos Delgado

  Running, Smart, Home

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• I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Benefits, Way, Privacy

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• To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Struggle, Warrior, Giving

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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'm not the kind of person who could join AA or have rules for myself or on Thursday take this vitamin pill. So, basically, I learned the hard way. I learned by trial and error, and tried to get drugs out of my work. That took about a year. If I was going to work, it was best that I be straight. And I was surprised at what came out.

  Iggy Pop

  Years, Errors, Drug

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.

  Shaffi Mather

  Way, Catering, Hard

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• All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

  Robert Greene

  Crush, Revenge, Fire

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• Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Clerks, Use

  "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller". Book by Neal Stephenson, May 1988.

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• In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

  Taylor Swift

  Too Late, Lessons, Way

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• He's going to learn the hard way. Hopefully he changes his mentality quick.

  Dwyane Wade

  Way, Hopefully, Hard

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• We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

  Bayard Rustin

  Way, Knows, Hard

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• Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

  Joao Magueijo

  Nature, Real, Sweat

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

  Susan Rice

  Nice, Tools, Use

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

  Alan Hirsch

  People, Culture, Way

  Alan Hirsch (2009). “The Forgotten Ways”, p.111, Baker Books

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• Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Book, Reading, Google

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