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• The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

  Lena Dunham

  Life Lesson, Accusing Me, People

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.231, Random House

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• Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

  Huey Long

  Funny, Work, Umpires

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• Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

  Emma Watson

  Badass, Confusing, Becoming

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• What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Book, Writing, Sweat

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• The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

  Tom Stoppard

  Crafts, Pages

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• To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sorry, Believe, Hard Work

  "Armstrong stamps seventh Tour win", edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2005.

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• The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Ideas, People

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire Starter Sessions digital book out it was about three months of intense focus. I let my friends know that I probably wouldn't be hanging out of returning their phone calls. It wasn't about doing the dishes, I ordered a lot of pizza, and I just completely put myself in the creative bubble.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Book, Hard Work, Fire

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• I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.

  Waldo Salt

  Writing, Thinking, Fifty

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• Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

  Donald Hall

  Hard Work, Writing, Desire

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• Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Inspiration, Winning

  "Mark Cuban: America’s Coolest Billionaire". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. 2008.

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• Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

  Peter Garrett

  Wisdom, Hard Work, People

  Our Community Interview, www.ourcommunity.com.au. September 2003.

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• It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Luck

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• If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don't, then I don't. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I'll pretty much say to a guy, 'I like you - let's go hang out.' But my friends are like, 'You can't do that! You have to string this guy along.' And I'm just like, 'No! I won't! I just want to go on the date!' It's a nightmare - I definitely haven't figured it out yet.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, I Like You, Kissing

  "Emma Watson Reveals Her 'Harry Potter' Crush" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. June 28, 2011.

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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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• I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it

  Steve McClaren

  Fighting, Criticism, Weight

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• Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

  Joan Baez

  Women, Giving, Feminist

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• At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

  C. S. Lewis

  Drunk, Pet, World

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

  Seth Godin

  Generosity, Bravery, Fans

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.34, Penguin

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• Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

  Patrick Dodson

  Leadership, Elusiveness, Impossible

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• Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.

  Margaret Foley

  Hard Work, Writing, Character

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• Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."

  James Surowiecki

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Skills

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• I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

  Gene Hill

  Friendship, Dog, Nice

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• Easy writing makes hard reading.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  "Paris Was Our Mistress". Book by Samuel Putnam, 1947.

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• From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Views, Giving

  Interview with Bernard Cornwell, www.bernardcornwell.net.

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