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• Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard time getting started, be grateful that you are such a successful clutterer. Who else could have amassed such a collection of stuff?

  Emmet Fox

  Grateful, Successful, Hard Times

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• Hope and change are hard-fought things.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, Challenges, Hope And Change

  "Michelle Obama: What you see is the real me" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. February 3, 2010.

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• One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Times

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• Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Song, Doors, Judging

  "Think fast" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2005.

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• It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Men, Judging

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 01, 2010

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• The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

  John Shaffer

  Track, Together, Littles

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• I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

  Colin Hanks

  Dad, Father, Acting

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". The PARADE Magazine Interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

  Chris Isaak

  Inspirational, Dance, Couple

  "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview With Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the best thing he can do is be faithful to his Savior in every aspect of his life, continually saying "Thank You!" to God. An obsessed person knows there can never be intimacy if he is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy. He revels in his role as a child and friend of God.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Children

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.144, David C Cook

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• Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

  Judith Guest

  Depression, Simple, People

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.225, Penguin

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• I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It means "flying through the thunderstorm." That's not to say that there are no basic principles to orient you to the challenge. Indeed, I describe some in the book. But there are no simple recipes. Until you have lived it, you don't really know how to do it. That's what I mean by "leadership the hard way."

  Dov Frohman

  Leadership, Book, Mean

  "Why Leadership Is Like Flying Through a Thunderstorm: An Interview with Dov Frohman". Interiew with Robert Howard, www.leadershipthehardway.com.

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Decision, Needs

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• It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and common experience. The sisterhood (including the boilers - the old chooks!) is important to me. The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk taking and hard work.

  Hazel Hawke

  Women, Reading, Hard Work

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• The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

  Hazel Hawke

  Women, Reading, Hard Work

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• Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

  K.J. Parker

  Faith, Cutting, Different

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• It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.

  Bill McKibben

  Crazy, Taken, Our Generation

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• The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.

  George H. W. Bush

  Data, Effort, Understanding

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• Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

  Dee Hock

  Community, Trying, Records

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.42, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

  Donald Miller

  Coffee, Space, Community

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

  Richard C. Miller

  Education, Hard Work, Firsts

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• If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Failure, Trying

  "Fitness Superstar Jillian Michaels On Weight Loss, Healthy Eating & More!". Interview with Jessica Lipps, onmogul.com.

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• When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Weight Loss, Looks

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• There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Bravery, Mind

  William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.149

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• I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

  Kris Allen

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Five Questions with Kris Allen". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009.

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