Hardest Thing Quotes - Page 10

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Julian Barnes

Simple, Purpose, Clarity

Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Ray Lewis

Inspirational Life, Hard Work, Grind

FaceBook post by Ray Lewis from Apr 20, 2015

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I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Funny, Thinking, Eggs

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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Eric Hoffer

Vanity, Stupidity, Selfishness

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Laozi

Acting, Overcoming, World

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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

William Sloane Coffin

Diversity, May, Dangerous

William Sloane Coffin (2011). “The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality”, p.83, UPNE

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To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Nancy Friday

Nice, People, World

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It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Luigi Pirandello

Respect, Hands, Someone You Love

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In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.

Sheena Iyengar

Commitment, Order, Practice

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My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

Ann Hood

Daughter, Mother, Children

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Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

Edwidge Danticat

Monday, Writing, Night

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Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

Jude Morgan

Love Is, Too Late, May

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It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

Mike Nichols

Mean, People, Earth

"Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner, Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April 2012.

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The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.

Greg Plitt

Motivational, Things In Life, Done

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Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Choices, Decision

Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.

Amy Poehler

Thinking, Talking, Want

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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

Jennifer Egan

Two, Different, Would Be

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The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

Heather Mills

Strong, Pressure, Imagine

"Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 20, 2007.

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The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

Jan Hellriegel

Hardest, Findings

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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

C. K. Williams

Writing, Waiting, Ordinary

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Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

Karen Kingsbury

Goodbye, Moving, People

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Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

Neil Turok

Physics, Quantum, Hardest

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Believe, Men, Matter

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Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

Lilias Trotter

Life, God, Christian

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The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Ronald Lauder

Done, Given, Hardest

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