“Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.” IfsThinkingDifferentSometimesHardChanceResultsMistakeIf I CouldMaking MistakesMentalityGood ChanceDifferent Mentality Author:Alain Prost
“But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.” I CanDifferentHardPiecesBreadOne PieceCzechoslovakia Author:Daniela Pestova
“I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.” PersonsI CanDifferentSometimesHardEasyCourtBotherPerfectionistEasy Going Author:Mary Pierce
“Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.” TryingDifferentHardHomeKidsCausesPracticeRecordsTelevisionHard Work Author:Master P
“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.” PeopleNeedsDifferentHardLightFilmActorsDifficultSupportPositionColorHollywoodGreenProducersAfrican AmericanFilmmakerRelyEtcCohesionAmerican FilmGreen Lights Author:Paula Patton
“I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.” BelieveDifferentHardHelpingMightStrongI BelieveTeamHard WorkStandardsExcellenceAdministrationAgencyDepartmentDifferent ThingsStrongestInteriorsDelegates Author:Ken Salazar
“Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.” WritingDifferentHardStoriesEasyProcessCompareHard TimesDifferent ThingsChronicles Author:Max Landis
“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.” PeopleMindDifferentHardPlayJoySongWishMillionsWrittenKeysGlad Author:Chuck Mangione
“One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.” PeopleWritingYearsDifferentEndsHardExampleHard WorkSittingProfitChecksConstructionCashYardsEquipmentMetrics Author:Charlie Munger
“We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.” DifferentHardMomentsPerspectiveCaughtButtonsCaught UpDifferent PerspectiveResetReset Button Author:Tony Stewart
“When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.” KnowsNeedsDifferentHardHelpingPastLife IsNaturalRight NowOne DayFindingsMarriedMy FriendsWake UpTrainLike MeFighterGirlfriendHard TimesMuseumsOur FutureTake TimeOur PastUnpredictableNerdYour FutureYour PastExhibitionsTime OffNatural HistoryDifferent Life Author:Georges St-Pierre
“It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.” PeopleKnowsMayDifferentHardGuySuccessfulTenMindsetBeing SuccessfulSuccessful People Author:Rico Love
“I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentHardHelpingWantedHeardPersonalityGuitarHelp MeHouseholdBeing DifferentShowy Author:Martha Wainwright
“Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.” TryingDifferentHardHard WorkBuddhismMindfulnessChaosStop Trying Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.” WayDifferentHardDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsBe YouReincarnation Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.” FeelsDifferentSometimesHardViewsStylePossibilityMusicianMusic IsLeagueDifferent Styles Author:Ryan Adams
“It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.” IfsWritingDifferentHardMightReputationInitialsPseudonyms Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.” MenWantLittlesDifferentHardTodayGuyCommonHard WorkTomorrowDisciplineCommitmentAverageWrestlingCommon ManBetter Tomorrow Author:Jay Robinson
“Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.” IfsFeelsLooksStillsDifferentMatterHardDreamPassionGoalWaterTrainSwimmingGoing OutMy Passion Author:Natalie du Toit
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.” ThinkingWayWantShouldLooksKindTwoBookIdeasDifferentHardUseProblemOpinionWonderfulWrittenMagicFiguresHigherMachinesIntelligentMethodSolveDevicesArtificial IntelligenceDifferent KindsBulletsAdministrativeIntelligent Machines Author:Marvin Minsky
“I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.” KnowsDifferentHardKidsHurtConfusion Author:Janis Joplin
“When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.” PersonsDifferentHardFactsFacesForceCan DoRealizingGoneProgressSkyPaleLament Author:Mizuki Nomura
“People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.” PeopleIfsTryingKindImportantDifferentHardChanceTensionRelaxRelaxationRelaxed Author:Bill Murray
“It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.” PeopleWantImportantDifferentHardLightFilmInterestingActingWatchesEatingIllDisorderBalletAestheticEating Disorder Author:Amanda Schull
“I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?” PeopleFirstsDifferentHardStatesLastsFacesCoursesNextWhiteHappenedNew YorkFirst TimeEnglandMadClintonDrunkNext TimeLast WordsUnrealBlairEuphoriaGood WordsNew Faces Author:Doris Lessing
“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.” PeopleFirstsKindMeanDifferentHardPlayWantedGuyStuffStreetsPoetMaterialsPerceptionNotionDifferent Kinds Author:Matt Dillon
“Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.” BookDifferentHardStyleReaderBuyersDifferent Styles Author:Kevin Sampsell
“Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from being a civilian - except, of course, that I believe that policemen are just special sorts of civilians. Things like how hard it is to hold someone that doesn't want to be held. This is the kind of thing that is worth knowing.” WantBelieveKindDifferentHardFeelingsCoursesI BelieveKnowingSpecialSourceExesCiviliansPolicemen Author:Terry Pratchett
“When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.” PeopleKnowsWantDifferentHardHappensNextTheaterWant SomethingHard Things Author:James Gunn
“Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little... poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who's giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.” WantGivingFeelsLittlesDifferentHardEffectsLike YouHard TimesBellsLiftingVodkaKettles Author:Bill Murray
“Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.” ThinkingTwoDifferentHardWholeStoriesSchoolLevelsCollegeHard WorkHigh SchoolDifferent ThingsNbaComing OutDo The BestTwo Different ThingsGoing To College Author:Dwight Howard
“The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.” IfsWorldYearsDifferentHardMightAsksWinningAnswersPercentBaseballSeriesLeagueExpertsNflBowlsYankeesCapsSuper BowlSeattleWorld Series Author:Bob DuPuy
“While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.” PeopleWayFeelsWritingTryingYearsBelieveWellsLooksLongDifferentHardStoriesAbleRomanceI BelieveNaturalStepsKeysSticksMarketingDefinedGenreOddTrickyNicheBalancing Act Author:JoAnn Ross
“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.” PeopleIfsYearsKindDifferentHardMomentsProcessChanceChangedWindBlowScaryBreatheBoatLakesDifferent KindsCanoeing Author:Seth Godin
“Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.” KindDifferentHardFallLinesVisionSummerSpringSeasonsEternityWinterTrackStuckRepeatsLos AngelesBlurSpring SummerFall And Winter Author:Kris Kidd
“One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind of conventional relationship to adversity. Things aren't always easy and rather than being taught to have kindness to ourselves and others in the light of that we're taught something very different; that it's wrong and rejected - that's a lot of conditioning to step away from.” ThinkingKindDifferentHardLightEasyStepsKindnessTaughtTruth IsAdversityTelling The TruthConventionalRejectedConditioningThis Society Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Hard and impossible are two different things!” TwoDifferentHardImpossibleDifferent ThingsTwo Different Things Author:Eric Thomas
“You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'” IfsWantTryingKindDifferentHardEnoughMovingMistakeStudyPersonalityGet UpEmployeeMaking MistakesI Want YouKeep MovingResilientSame MistakesTrying HardMaking The Same Mistakes Author:Trip Hawkins
“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.” IfsWantTwoDifferentSometimesHardBigsCertainCan DoPerfectLevelsBehindsCreativeFourHonestFootballFairsEnglandMirrorsClubsLondonBoundariesLikesManagersSoccerProductiveChairmanTransfersTempoEnglish Society Author:Jens Lehmann