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“A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.”

People Thinking Long Hard Helping Seems Wanted Past Deals Careers Adversity Rosy Long Careers

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“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.”

Men Feels Trying Children Doe Hard Mother Guy Definitions Fatherhood Good Guy

Author:David Blankenhorn

“Why do I find it hard to write the next line?”

Writing Hard Next Lines

Author:Gary Kemp

“Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.”

Thinking Trying Self Hard Conscious Essence Uniqueness Glamour Self Conscious Trying Really Hard

Book:Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

Source: Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist

“It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.”

Writing Heart Hard Stories Broken Love Story

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.”

Hard Opportunity Seasons Crowds Malls Vaults Des Moines Pole Vault

Author:Jenn Suhr

“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.”

People Writing Years Different Ends Hard Example Hard Work Sitting Profit Checks Construction Cash Yards Equipment Metrics

Author:Charlie Munger

“Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that.”

May Important Hard Done Stuff Mistake Taught Regret Technique Yield No Regrets Academia Have No Regrets

Author:Charlie Munger

“God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.”

Want Heart Hard Trouble Feet Want U Soft Heart

Author:Jackie Pullinger

“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.”

Different Hard Moments Perspective Caught Buttons Caught Up Different Perspective Reset Reset Button

Author:Tony Stewart

“I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.”

Years Long Hard Lasts Past Decided Championship Last Time My Future Offseason

Author:Jeff Gordon

“Messi is a natural born talent, that is not to say he doesn’t work hard, but you can’t teach what he can do.”

Hard Can Do Born Natural Teach Talent Hard Work Messi

Author:Deco

“Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.”

Ifs Hard Jobs Actors

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.”

Ifs Mind Hard Evil Force Moral Degrees Assuming Grants Brutes Degenerates

Author:John Galt

“Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.”

Looks Hard Easy Sound Winner Loser

Author:Orrin Woodward

“It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias”

Persons Hard Bias Bias And Prejudice

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.”

World Mind Humans Matter Hard Stories Yield Human Mind Gravity Heels

Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Hard Enough Religious Acceptance Hard Work Approach Deserve Performances Approval Obedient

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“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.”

“I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.”

Has Beens Hard Able Parent Rooms Watches Son Blessed Enlightened Locks

Author:A. Scott Berg

“We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.”

People Thinking Knows World Trying Believe Hard Moments Use Energy Quality Stupid Products Lows Species Spending Innocent Hey Useless Excellent Hopeful That Moment Earning Items Stink Dupes

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.”

Hard Spiritual Growth Acceptance Hard Work Keys Perseverance Mental Strength Physical Strength Spiritual Strength Love Acceptance Love Strength Continuous Growth

Author:Rickson Gracie

“So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life.”

People Hard Joy Night Natural Results Achieve Creation Divine Expression Fortune Meaning Of Life Cherish Day And Night Joy Of Life

Author:Barbara Rose

“You must have respect for those who tell you the truth about you, no matter how hard it is”

Matter Hard

Author:Anil Sinha

“Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.”

People Want Trying Heart Hard Christian Beautiful President Middle Music Is Embrace East Ministers Prime Middle East Prime Minister

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.”

People Kind Ideas Hard Hate Individual Issues Aspect Kitten Wikipedia Encyclopedia

Author:Jimmy Wales

“More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.”

Hard

Author:Curt Schilling

“I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.”

Years Hard Games Core Gamer Playing Games Hard Core

Author:Curt Schilling

“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”

Hard Enough Care Lasts Energy Easy Hard Work Stress Oneself Working It Wraps

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.”

People Should Firsts Hard Church Cities Hell Priorities Joints Go To Hell

Author:David Shibley

“Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.”

Heart Important Real Hard Quality Fate Talent Hard Work Luck Accidents Crucial Phenomenal Intangible Clutch Intangible Quality

Author:Andrew Sharp

“If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.”

People Ifs Way Real Hard Guy Games Winning Sports Achieve Worst Hard Work Deserve Prejudice Real Life Worst Things Inertia Being Played What You Deserve

Author:Daley Thompson

“If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Hard Running Know How Forever Risk Love You Extras Tango Love You Forever

Author:Sherman Alexie

“In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.”

Hard Games Term Can Do Performances Focused Coming Out Preparing Scouting

Author:Dom Starsia

“It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world.”

People World Long Country Hard Character Spirit Inspired Driving Canada Devoted Great Country Marching On Bumpy Roads

Author:Stompin' Tom Connors

“I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.”

Thinking Knows Littles Hard Play Wanted Decision Talking Emotional Percent Hardest Our Family Accomplished Hardest Thing Nhl Hard Decision

Author:Chris Chelios

“Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.”

Hard Challenges Powerful Struggle Majors Coaches Pushing Fierce Arena Romania Pushing Each Other

Author:Bela Karolyi

“Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.”

Hard Enemy Design Really Great Great Design

Author:Jonathan Ive

“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.”

People Way Giving Trying Firsts Stills Important Hard Helping Form Three Understanding Break Missing Figures Objects Materials Tools Direct Presses Behave Digital Quests Impressive Rendering

Author:Jonathan Ive

“At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.”

Knows World Feels Hard Know How Havens Tears Lonely Score I Feel Sad

Author:Yani Tseng

“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.”

People Thinking Knows Years Kind Hard Courses Individual Roles Band Bigger

Author:Stone Gossard

“Hard to move on when you always regret one.”

Hard Moving Regret

Author:J. Cole

“My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.”

Wells Said Hard Focus Mum

Author:Cesc Fabregas

“Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.”

Hard Jobs Night Wise Smart Rain Fishing Being Wise Day Night

Author:Mariano Rivera

“Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.”

Men Hard Novel Cutting Crime Remains Edges Bones Redemption Portraits Carter Stumbling Crime Novels

Author:James Sallis

“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.””

Hard Stuff Voice Practice Five Minutes Son Band Losing Singers Reasonable Hats My Son Five Minutes Vocal Hats Off Growling

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.”

Ifs Should Writing Real Hard Code Programming Comment Programmers Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Computer Programmers Writing Code

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.”

People Thinking Knows Book Hard Desire Fun Written Amount Commitment Sticks Having Fun

Author:Ted Bell

“Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.”

Ifs Knows Littles Hard Play Asks Player Harder Honestly Trash It Is What It Is Holding Back Trash Talk

Author:Jason Babin

“It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.”

Looks Hard Body Directors

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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