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“You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Hard Hard Work Elements Deserve Luck Critical Great Idea

Author:Ian Rankin

“Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.”

Two Hard Hard Work Discipline Elements Innovation Combination Mma Lottery

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way.”

Thinking Knows Way Hard Character Might Issues One Thing Elements Weakness Convincing Strength And Weakness Characterization Beginning Writers

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.”

Writing Hard Elements Objectives Cant Skeletons Bad Writing

Author:Eliza Coupe

“Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.”

People Knows World Wells Hard Play Ability Know How Talent Hard Work Elements Labor Leisure Introducing Constructive Playfulness

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.”

Long Hard Values Greater Hard Work Periods Elements Add Patient Appreciation Accomplishment Outcomes Long Periods Of Time

Book:The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

Source: The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

“There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.”

Want Giving May Hard Differences Figures Personality Giving Up Elements Anxiety Aspect Foresight Empathetic Pathology I May Not Be

Author:Scott Stossel

“I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.”

Thinking Trying Hard Jobs Enjoy Roles Taken Shapes Elements Picks Advantage Variety Shifting Taken Advantage

Author:Emily Blunt

“None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.”

Ifs Knows Littles Hard Moments Life Is Fit Circumstances Healthy Elements Dignity Ill Over It Terminally Ill

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're like, "Oh, huh. Well, that didn't turn out quite the way I thought." Sometimes you think you're part of a project and it isn't that great, and then it sort of becomes a pleasant surprise. But I think there's just too many elements that affect the tone of a movie, so I think even for a director, it may be hard to gauge that.”

Thinking Men Way Wells May Sometimes Hard Together Turns Directors Elements Projects Surprise Fantastic Tone Pleasant Gauges Pleasant Surprises

Author:Anna Faris

“The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.”

Needs Hard Seems Impossible Share Elements Frightening Disturbing

Author:Carl Rogers

“Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success.”

Hard Hard Work Keys Elements Commitment

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that Earth needs to work for a living. Earth has stuff to be doing. Earth is busy. Earth is solid and responsible and works hard. Earth is reliable. Earth is the designated driver of the elements and will always come over and feed the cat when you're out of town.”

Needs Kind Hard Feelings Earth Stuff Water Fire Air Hard Work Elements Cat Towns Responsible Busy Guts Drivers Aggressive Gut Feelings Swirls Air And Water

Author:Ursula Vernon

“When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It was physically demanding, but in a very good way. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing, when things are physically demanding 'cause everyone is rising to the occasion.”

Way Real Hard Causes Elements Good Things Very Good Occasions Rising Bad Things Good Way

Author:James Badge Dale

“This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.”

Hard Team Elements Best Things Lennon

Author:Paul McCartney

“If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.”

Ifs Way Years Mean Hard Bigs Deals Records One Thing Rocks Prove Elements My Family Hard Times Punk Hung Scratches Punk Rock Differentiate Proving Yourself Having A Hard Time

Author:Martha Wainwright

“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.”

“Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.”

“There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.”

Book Hard Elements Length Nuance

Author:Jade Hassoune

“There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.”

Hard Trump Elements Entertainment Pretending Surreal Fascists Clowning

Author:Jonathan Chait

“In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.”

Ifs World Want Looks Real Hard Reality Past Term Fantasy Cold Elements Opposition Capture Concrete Imaginary Veils Subjective Materialistic Outside World Surrealism Objectivism

Author:Elaine Equi

“We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.”

Thinking Hard Left Talent Elements Smart Can't Change Left Handed

Author:Stephen King

“Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.”

Should May Hard Done Government Age Behinds Doors Achieve Subjects Demand Elements Working It Diplomacy Bureaucrats Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.”

Ifs Humans Hard Moments Eye Film Millions Air Sky Tears Elements Concepts Rain Denial Lifts Colour Climbing Dirt Grey Grit Sinking Impurity Human Eyes Paisley

Book:Money

Source: Money

“It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.”

People Ifs Writing Hard Reason Done Seems Film Moving Hate Terrible Easier Elements Criticism Obvious Arguing Ridiculous Flaws Like Something Parody Cerebral Things You Like

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.”

People Ifs Hard Certain Easy Loneliness Involved Mets Ego Elements

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works