“I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.” IfsDoeHardAttentionMiserable Author:Sienna Miller
“Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWritingDoeHardPayActingAttentionKnow HowDirectorsMusic IsHarderProfessionHonestlyPay AttentionInstructionLeeches Author:Michael Shannon
“I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.” WayTryingDoeRealHardBigsFansRemainsCrowTrying Too HardBeen Real Author:Kate Voegele
“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.” NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home Author:Steven Levitt
“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.” WayDoeHardStatesGovernmentLastsUnitedBehindsUnited StatesImagineWallExtremesDecadesSignificanceSecrecyLeaksSecretive Author:Glenn Greenwald
“When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.” MenFeelsTryingChildrenDoeHardMotherGuyDefinitionsFatherhoodGood Guy Author:David Blankenhorn
“I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.” ThinkingDoeImportantHardSpaceKnownPrayingDadOkayCancerHave FaithMake You ThinkBeing Positive Author:Jermain Defoe
“My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.” MeanDoeHas BeensImportantHardParentKnowingShareHard WorkTomorrowSurvivedGreedyDnaGreat DepressionExtravagance Author:David Suzuki
“Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.” IfsTryingPersonsDoeMatterHardFeelingsDramaMutual Author:Jin Sun Mi
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” TryingDoeHardNatureMankindHuman NatureDependsSucceedExperimentsHardshipSpectacularBest Nature Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.” DoeArtHardFactsUseSocialProcessEffortCasesImpossibleSeriousDeserveIdealsTasksTestsFunctionDiscussionConsiderationPropositionsArt And ScienceVerify Book:Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.” PeopleDoeHardYoungChoicesDifficultyCompetitionProfessionChessEtcOccupationHobbies Author:Boris Spassky
“Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.” DoeHardRealitySpiritualityResultsAchieveHonestyHard WorkLetting GoIllusionAbsolutesCommittedRealizationWillingnessSincere Author:Adyashanti
“It's really nice to know hard work does pay off.” KnowsDoeHardPayNiceHard WorkMmaReally NiceUfc Author:Rose Namajunas
“I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.” ThinkingWritingDoeHardCertainDisciplineIntellectualStructureSentencesMapping Author:Daniel Alarcon
“Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.” WayTryingDoeHardTogetherFlowerTablesSeriesBunchArrangementsVases Author:Ina Garten
“This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.” DoeBookHardAttentionEdgesConvictionWorthyTitlesLive ByRoughTexasCrudeResidentsScrabble Author:Anne Wilkes Tucker
“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.” KnowsMenWorldWayDoeSelfHardYoungSilenceTalkingDoubtHeardStreetsFieldsExerciseTrainDareLimitationCrushYoung WomenHarassmentPresumptionSelf-doubtSpeaking UpOverconfidence Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.” IfsFeelsDoeSometimesHardLastsSoundMorningFireObjectsColdBreathsInstrumentsBreatheOilChineseExposedCoatsBreezeLungsFloatsDewFreezeMorning DewFirecracker Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
“I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.” IfsBelieveDoeMadeImportantHardEnoughTodayPeriodsEternalTragedyRight ThingFalsehoodRecallsOverlooked Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.” IfsThinkingWayWantFeelsDoeRealEndsSometimesHardCertainLevelsNew YorkLike YouWindowStorytellingThe End Of The DayPuzzlesNew York TimesCrackedAmbiguousCrosswords Author:Damon Lindelof
“[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.” GivingBelieveMayDoeMadeHardHard WorkDuesDumbFootnotesBeavers Author:Will Cuppy