Hardest Quotes - Page 27

• The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

  Fred Brooks

  Building, Software

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• If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

  Josh McDowell

  Earth, Jerusalem, Faces

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• The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Thinking, Hook

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• Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Thinking, Two, Understanding

  'The Critic' (1779) act 1, sc. 2

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• I think I bit off more than I could chew. I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now... that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Thinking, Doubt

  "A legend learns to respect the distance" by Eugene Wallingford, www.cs.uni.edu. November 7, 2006.

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• One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

  Harold J. Warner

  Relationship, Jobs, Hardest Job

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• The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Work, Doing Nothing

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• One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boyhood, Natural, Invention

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.31, Booklassic

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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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• Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Being Yourself, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.

  Diana Vreeland

  Color, Black, World

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

  Bill Murray

  Being Yourself, Jobs, Fun

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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, Things To Do

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

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• The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Careers, Missionary

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• It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Littles, Little Things

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while.

  Amy Pascal

  Drama, Winning, Awards

  Source: deadline.com

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• The Ironman World Championship is the hardest race I've competed in. Not only do the elements (heat, wind, humidity) make it grueling, but the quality of the field makes it a true test.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Race, Wind, Quality

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com. December 29, 2013.

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• It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing is taking the instrument out of the case. To begin is to be half done!

  Joey Reiman

  Success, Fearless, Being Positive

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.80, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Equality, People

  Regards sur le Monde Actuel (1931)

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• I tell my coach all the time "Hey, listen, coach. You know the hardest person on me isn't you, right? It's me." I'm the hardest person on myself, my biggest critic, always pushing. But there are days when I have to tell myself, "Relax, breathe, you're too stressed out." When it's no longer fun, when it's no longer something you can tolerate, that's when you have to take a break.

  Jonathan Horton

  Fun, Relax, Stressed

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• No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

  Trey Parker

  Funny, Writing, Order

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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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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• I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Thinking, Wife

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

  Michael Franti

  Sometimes, Things To Do, Humans

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• Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Bears, Chains, Forged

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2255, Macmillan

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