Hardest Quotes - Page 23

• 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, Whole

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• Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth century America and have it in keeping with the character of the place ? that was my hardest problem.

  Henry Flagler

  Character, Cities, America

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• God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Trying, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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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, Given Up

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• The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Dinner, Homesick

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• There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

  Robert Breault

  Winning, Perfectly Good, Excuse

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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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• Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.

  Kristin Hannah

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

  David Allen

  Splits, Take Control, Productive

  Twitter post from May 30, 2009

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• The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Men, Ideas, Done

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Key to Theosophy”, p.78, BookRix

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

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

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• It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

  Will Cuppy

  People, Faults, Easy

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• The first step is the hardest.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Motivation, Firsts, Steps

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• Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Laughter, Balls

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• It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Mom, Home, Thinking

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Reality, Thinking, Triumph

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• I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.

  Chris Rock

  Believe, Winning, Work Ethic

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• Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

  Dylan McDermott

  Years, Comedy, Yeah

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• I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

  Chaim Potok

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• When I was a kid about joining the Peace Corps. It said it was "the hardest job you'll ever love." This is what parenting is, as far as I'm concerned. This is parenting. That is the friggin' Peace Corps. Because you don't love doing this - this is the thing you love the most in your life, it's the best thing you ever do.

  Pat Benatar

  Jobs, Kids, Hardest Job

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

  Bryan Cranston

  Player, Actors, Periods

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

  Roger Clemens

  Father, Heart, Reality

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