Hard Quotes - Page 11

• If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

  Steven Galloway

  Writing, Would Be, Possibility

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• Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

  David Eddings

  Hard Work, Writing, Apprenticeship

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• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  Wallace Stegner

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.158, Modern Library

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• Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

  Richard North Patterson

  Book, Writing, Simple

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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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• The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Thinking, Welfare, Economics

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• These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

  Drake

  Relationship, Love Life, Commitment

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Crafts, Pages

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• It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to get up.

  Bobby Heenan

  Moving, Wrestling, Trying

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• The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Thinking, Economics, Economist

  "On the Mechanics of Economic Development". Journal of Monetary Economics, 22, 1988.

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• It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Brain, Economics

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

  Tim Ferriss

  Success, Marketing, Trying

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• Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

  Marlon Wayans

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

  "Marlon Wayans "A Haunted House" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Tyrants, Choices

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• The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

  Gustavus Franklin Swift

  Inspirational, Motivation, Hard Work

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• Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Ethos, Grandparent

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• Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

  David Duval

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

  Andrea Jaeger

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• ...And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.

  Toni Braxton

  I Miss You, Missing You, Mind

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• It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

  Ouida

  Mother, Hard Work, Kissing

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida

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• Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.

  Mae West

  Girl, Lines, Resistance

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Teacher, Hurt, Sorry

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• I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard giving your body and not your heart. And I'll take revenge. To all those rich nobles, I'll get revenge for all the pain I received. No...even more. Then I'll get revenge on you, Head Mistress. Breaking my love and making me a courtesan, will not be a good thing for you.

  Hwang Jini

  Pain, Revenge, Drama

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