“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.” HardUsedFatherPoorClassFiguresMastersMomHonorUniversityMy MomAcceptedNew OrleansContractor Author:Frank Ocean
“I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.” PeopleHardStuffFiguresNormalHeightFrightenedSpidersThings That Are Hard Author:Haley Joel Osment
“It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.” KindHardAgeJobsLostFiguresWho You Are Author:Jodi Sweetin
“It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.” HardStoriesFilmFiguresTrue Story Author:James Franco
“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.” ThinkingTryingHardForceTechnologyFiguresWindOur SocietyGale Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.” WritingTryingHardMightNovelFiguresConsciousMadDevicesCompelling Author:Sarah Waters
“When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.” WantBookSometimesHardStuffOpinionFiguresCriticsInternalsGet OverCritiqueClassmates Author:Veronica Roth
“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.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“Making it to the NFL is a huge accomplishment. Making it in the NFL is a huge accomplishment, but I haven't done that yet. No matter how many games we've played, it's still hard to figure out when you've made it in the NFL.” MadeStillsMatterHardDoneGamesHavensFiguresHugeMade ItAccomplishmentNfl Author:Robert Griffin III
“A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna - you know, figure that one out.” PeopleKnowsTryingHardFiguresHard TimesMarcosHaving A Hard Time Author:Eric Bolling
“I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.” HardInspirationFiguresHard Work Author:Randy Schekman
“It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.” TryingHardUniverseNextSleepSecretFiguresMonthsGirlfriendGoing To SleepYour Girlfriend Author:Antony Garrett Lisi
“Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.” PeopleWayNeedsHardFiguresStealingOnlinePiracyWholesale Author:Tim Heidecker
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.” ThinkingWayWantShouldLooksKindTwoBookIdeasDifferentHardUseProblemOpinionWonderfulWrittenMagicFiguresHigherMachinesIntelligentMethodSolveDevicesArtificial IntelligenceDifferent KindsBulletsAdministrativeIntelligent Machines Author:Marvin Minsky
“It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.” HardFigures Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden
“(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.” WantFeelsTryingHardEnoughGamesWinningFiguresHugeLoversAddictionVideoCrankVideogame Author:Amy Smart
“To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.” PeopleIfsWayLittlesHardCertainFiguresSmartPersonaReally SmartReally Pretty Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.” WayTryingYearsHardHumanityActorsLinesFiguresMonsters Author:Josh Brolin
“The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.” IfsTryingHardDreamRunningEconomyAchieveFiguresHard WorkOfficeShotsFairsYour DreamsAchieving Your Dreams Author:Barack Obama
“The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.” FeelsRealHardComedyFiguresTricksHard ThingsReal You Author:Michael Cera
“Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.” HardBeautifulHonestFiguresDramaBrilliant Author:Jorie Graham