“I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.” ThinkingWorldHardFiveBrotherTrainingGoldTrainIncludingChampionMy BrotherMedalAcademyGold MedalsHoustonWorld ChampionsBest Of The BestTaekwondo Author:Diana Lopez
“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.” IfsKnowsTryingStillsI CanHardAgeBeautifulAttentionFiveCuttingCeaseForty Author:Paulina Porizkova
“I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.” KnowsWayYearsHardFallSidesActingFiveCollegeCommittedQuittingFive YearsDoveI QuitGo Hard Author:Sonja Sohn
“If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.” IfsIdeasHardRunningDiesDealsFiveDangerLuckyCentsBefore I Die Author:Jello Biafra
“We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsYearsHardFiveEqualMen And WomenYears AgoPartnersFive YearsFortyHepburnTracy Author:Betty Friedan
“My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”” HardStuffVoicePracticeFiveMinutesSonBandLosingSingersReasonableHatsMy SonFive MinutesVocalHats OffGrowling Author:Bruce Dickinson
“It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.” KnowsMeanStillsHardLastsFilmFiveMinutesApproachFive Minutes Author:Alex Prager
“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.” MenWellsKindSaidHardKidsYoungGuyNextLeftLinesWatchesFiveMinutesFieldsOne DayWeaknessSittingBallsLeagueOld ManDishesHelplessFenceCurvesFive MinutesBack And ForthPitcherRobinsRibsBattingCatchersWagnerLeft Field Author:Burleigh Grimes
“I don't see a lot of guys that have done that [winning three times before age 24], besides Tiger Woods, of course, and, you know, the other legends of the game. It's just one of those things, I believe in myself and – especially with how hard I've worked – I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.” KnowsWorldFeelsBelieveHardDoneAgeGuyThreeCoursesGamesWinningI BelieveFivePlayerI Believe InWoodsJust OneLegendsProvenTigersThree TimesI Believe In Myself Author:Patrick Reed
“The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)” YearsHardOrderCoursesFiveLaborCourtIncludingFive YearsContemptPerl Author:Larry Wall
“I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard to create characters that have dignity. And I think everybody knows that I have a very pro-woman message in my work - and in my life.” ThinkingKnowsLongTwoHardCharacterFiveFeetMessagesDignity Author:Reese Witherspoon
“After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldFeelsYearsSaidI CanHardGamesStrongCan DoPowerfulFiveStreetsWalkingFameThirdsBallsHarderBoxesHardestHallsYankeesNew York YankeesHall Of FameSandyI Can Do ThisThrowers Author:Jim Bouton
“I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.” HardBodyFiveWeekMinutesYogaTrainSessionCircuitsBody Strength Author:Bear Grylls
“Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.” YearsBelieveHardReasonHappensTurnsI BelieveLaughingFiveOur LivesAliveCryPleaseExtremesReason Why Book:Yes Please Source: Yes Please
“I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantHardFilmActorsWatchesMillionsFiveDependsOfficeBoxesRelatedBox OfficeMore The MerrierBox Office Success Author:Rani Mukerji
“I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.” WantGivingWellsHardHumorMovingPoliticalThreeOpportunityHouseWhiteFiveHard WorkAuthorityGive MeTradeUrgesWhite HouseSenatorsPromotionCongressmanPolitical HumorThank You For Coming Author:George W. Bush
“Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.” FirstsBelieveHardNovelFivePagesVersesHittingSeventiesCrank Author:Ellen Hopkins
“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.” ThinkingWritingI CanHardDonePastLife IsThreeBitsCan DoGoneFiveMaterialsAnxietyJokesPressureCome UpRelaxScreenplaysI Can Do ItParalyzed Author:Steve Martin
“In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?” IfsKnowsWorldWantMindWellsI CanHardMightRunningAbleHalfBreakRecordsFiveCuttingBuiltTrainMilesWell BeingMy TimeGeneticsWorld Records Author:Stefan Sagmeister
“History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!” YearsBelieveHardMovingFiveGayCorporationsFive YearsHard To BelievePersonhood Author:Stephen Colbert
“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.” PeopleIfsNeedsMindKindI CanSelfHardSeemsHateThreeLosesSecretAttitudePrinciplesPracticeFiveHonestHard WorkTenWeakTwentiesSelf ConfidenceSettingFatsSettingsFortyPoundsGymFormulasTwenty FiveMental AttitudePositive Mental AttitudeHate Myself Book:Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“I believe in myself, especially with how hard I've worked. I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.” WorldFeelsBelieveHardI BelieveFivePlayerI Believe InProvenI Believe In Myself Author:Patrick Reed
“We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.” WorldHardHappensKidsAgeEarthDiesWaterFivePlanetsCleanAccessRelateSecondsOur PlanetClean WaterSanitation Author:Matt Damon
“Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.” PeopleHardMomentsSocialFiveMinutesConversationDrawsAccountsStrikesMeaningfulHard TimesFuelReservesFive MinutesBank AccountsSocial CapitalMeaningful Conversations Author:Michelle Gielan
“Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.” IfsWayTwoImportantSelfHardSongTurnsFallBeliefHoursFiveMonthsProudSixInstinctCorePianoTrustedBe ProudSix MonthsFall BackCore Beliefs Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.” PeopleIfsWantHardFiveMinutesLike YouNow And ThenFrustratingFive MinutesGlamorousBad Thoughts Author:Zoe Saldana
“As a kid, I would do all of the plays at my school, and I was notorious for being in five numbers in one show. I'd go onstage, run backstage for a wardrobe change, and then go back out onstage. I'm always trying to do more than I should but when I got my lucky break (or whatever it's called), I was prepared because I studied and worked really hard for it.” ShouldTryingHardPlayShowsRunningKidsSchoolNumbersBreakFiveLuckyPreparedAlways TryingWardrobeNotoriousLucky Breaks Author:Chrissie Fit
“I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.” WorldWayNeedsI CanTwoHardWould BeAgeTechnologyRecordsFiveRocksComputerHundredAspectDollarsExtrasThis DayBaggageFees Author:Neil Armstrong
“Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.” MenTwoHardThreeLeftFiveTeamIceHockeySecondsUnitsCentreRight WingDefendersLeft WingIce HockeyGoalies Author:Gerad Adams
“Normally if I go to one of these things I'm in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It's a fantastic show. But it's incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.” IfsEndsHardStoriesShowsKidsNightFiveMinutesPrideFantasticBritainFive Minutes Author:Simon Cowell
“I had done 'Die Hard' and it was somebody's franchise. I actually just got done with the 'Hawaii Five-O' pilot and I was developing some things of my own. So 'Total Recall' one of those projects that I read wanting more not to like it.” HardDoneDiesMy OwnFiveProjectsDevelopingPilotsRecallsHawaiiWanting MoreTotal Recall Author:Len Wiseman
“I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.” PeopleHardEffortTalkingFiveMonthsNotesCopiesReach OutEmail Author:Dana Perino
“You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.” ThinkingYearsHardDoneProblemFightingFoundBlackStruggleFiveDegreesPrisonConvictionRingsNineCompareFive YearsExesNine YearsConvictsParole Author:Bernard Hopkins
“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.” WayWritingLittlesRealHardCharacterShowsHoursSpaceHalfEconomyFiveMinutesPagesTwentiesSeriesThirtyFortyPilotsIntroducingEstatesPremisesHalf Hours Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein
“Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.” ThinkingWantYearsStillsHardBigsWorkFiveFive YearsThink Big Author:Chanel Iman
“It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all, give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to 125 pounds.” GivingTwoHardShowsFiveFashionNew YorkSizeActressesPounds Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.” MadeHardFilmThreeAsksNamesFiveBenefitsFemaleFilmmakerGoogle Author:Leslye Headland