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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 had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Thinking, Knowing

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Sacrifice, Order

  "Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of Superbad". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2007.

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• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Ocean, Reality

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• I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

  Ridley Scott

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights and you're framing and you're moving around. The hardest thing to learn as a director is how cameras have to move. You have to have patience, you have to learn how to look through the lens and then you have to learn to combine all of the compartments into one great image.

  Russell James

  Moving, Light, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

  Allen Klein

  Smile, Broken Heart, Pain

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• The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Bats, Hardest

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• The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

  Dwight Howard

  People, Back When, Way

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

  Paul Feig

  Want, Critics, Hardest

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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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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• The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

  Robert Breault

  Parent, Bruises, Accepting

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• Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

  George Foreman

  Hardest, Things To Do, You Choose

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

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• It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Laughing, Hours

  "Q+A: Aziz Ansari, Overachiever". Interview with Adam K. Raymond, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Father, Acceptance

  "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win". Book by Carol Leifer, www.today.com. March 2009.

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• Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Volleyball, Hardest

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