Hard Quotes - Page 25

• I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

  Layne Beachley

  Sports, Champion, World

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• I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

  Steven Bradbury

  Sports, Thinking, Race

  "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

  Julia Gillard

  Leadership, Past, Thinking

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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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• Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

  Gabby Douglas

  Sports, Champion, Made

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• ...if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Wind, Energy

  "Morgan Freeman has taste for clean energy". Interview with Adam Spangler, www.nbcnews.com. November 13, 2007.

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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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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  News conference, 21 Mar. 1962

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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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• And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

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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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• Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

  Ani DiFranco

  Heartless, Survivor, Chalk

  Song: Not A Pretty Girl Complete Album, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.369

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Crafts, Pages

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• Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Wall, Hard Work

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Writing, Men

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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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• You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and another is trying too hard. Why one video is brilliantly entertaining and another is cheesy. Bottom line: you should want to do great work with a great team-no matter the cost.

  Jason Calacanis

  Clever, Team, Illustration

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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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• 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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• It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.

  Sara Gilbert

  Father, Son, Boys

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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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• 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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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Real, Successful, Animal

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