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Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published

“Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.”

Want Hard Life Is Easy Trouble Train Calm Complicated Reform Faculty Discontent Life Is Hard Make Others Happy

Book:The Job: An American Novel

Source: The Job: An American Novel

“When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.”

Persons Hard Winning Quality Assuming Characteristics Define You

Author:Lance Armstrong

“At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.”

Ends Hard States Use Government Law Left Break Arms Unions Terrorist Locals Finance Borders Gang Spectrum Local Government Conspiring

Book:The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”

Men Should May Stills Hard Dream Past Spirit Forget Pleasure Adventure Sake Great Men Exploration Honour Explorers Mt Everest

Book:High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest

Source: High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest

“I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step.”

Ifs Hard Enough Goal Steps Achieve Reasonable Manageable

Author:Michael Jordan

“When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.”

Way Hard Play Player Hard Work Losing Get Better Teammate

Author:Larry Bird

“Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.”

Want Hard Play Guy Demand Bird Coaches Unreasonable Larry Play Hard

Author:Larry Bird

“All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.”

Hard God Remember All Things Command Endeavour

Book:Moby Dick: Or, The Whale

Source: Moby Dick: Or, The Whale

“I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.”

Years Believe Hard Guy Four Team Baseball Managers Owners Predecessors Hard To Believe Dodgers Mack

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.”

People Should Believe Hard Whole Hate I Believe Fiction Hard Work I Hate Intelligent Science Fiction Temptation Awe Committees Competent Protagonists Awe Inspiring

Author:David Brin

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Doe Real Ends Sometimes Hard Certain Levels New York Like You Window Storytelling The End Of The Day Puzzles New York Times Cracked Ambiguous Crosswords

Author:Damon Lindelof

“Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.”

Thinking Ideas Hard Done Stories Turns Left Easy Audience Risk Losing Twists Turn-on

Author:Damon Lindelof

“You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.”

Hard Grows Church Space Cities Source Harder Transformation Plant

Author:Erwin McManus

“I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements.”

Thinking Hard Purpose Interest Community Effort Depends Ideals Appreciation Firm Helpful Cooperation Engagement Assured Conferences Compulsion Fallacy Fostering

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.”

Hard Purpose Wise Bears Determination Providence Nevertheless Gracious Decree Inscrutable

Book:Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution. June, 1775, to July, 1776 (v. 3); July, 1776, to July, 1777 (v. 4); July, 1777, to July, 1778 (v. 5); July, 1778, to March, 1780 (v. 6); March, 1780, to April, 1781 (v. 7); April, 1781, to December, 1783 (v. 8)

Source: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution. June, 1775, to July, 1776 (v. 3); July, 1776, to July, 1777 (v. 4); July, 1777, to July, 1778 (v. 5); July, 1778, to March, 1780 (v. 6); March, 1780, to April, 1781 (v. 7); April, 1781, to December, 1783 (v. 8)

“But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.”

Should Mind May Hard Seems Belief Prayer Concern Bless Incline

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

“One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.”

Thinking Has Beens Hard Thinking Hard

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.”

People Thinking Hard Company Six Blue Billions Plus Jeans Blue Jeans

Author:Steve Jobs

“From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.”