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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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• All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

  Esther Hicks

  Reality, Energy, Gathering

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• Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

  Kanye West

  Song, Track, Gone

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• So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

  Barbara Boxer

  Rip, Oil, Special

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• Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

  Huey Long

  Funny, Work, Umpires

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• It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.

  Dick Vermeil

  Regret, Play, Safe

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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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• Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Mean, Care, Sometimes

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.52, Moody Publishers

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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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• Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Talent, Notes

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Crafts, Pages

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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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• 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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• He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

  Jay McInerney

  Hard Work, Secret, Survival

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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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• 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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• 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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• Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Cancer, Someone You Love, Sides

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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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• School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Teacher, School

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

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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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• We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.

  Bernard Lown

  Children, Issues, Rights

  Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1985.

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• Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Believe, Hard Work, Memorable

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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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• 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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