Best hard & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.”

Years Firsts Hard School High School Shy Many Friends

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.”

People Firsts Country Hard Used Father Individual President Islam African American Hostility Antagonism American President Working Very Hard

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?”

Needs Firsts Humans Soul Hard Body Can Do Space Perfect Prove Computer Machines Unlimited Silicon Physical Body Simulation Disk

Author:Frank J. Tipler

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.”

Writing Firsts Hard Joy Lying Grind

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.”

Firsts Hard Jobs Focus Campaigns Obligation

Author:Claire McCaskill

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“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

“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

“I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.”

People Knows Way Want Firsts Hard States Government Found House Race Issues Understood Chiefs Primaries Ran Our Family Speakers Accused State Government Hard Way

Author:Jim Edgar

“Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on its flood, you must give yourself rewards. "When I write this chapter, I can call my boyfriend." "When I finish one page more, I can get an ice cream cone." "If I write this section, I'll find a check in the mail."”

Ifs Giving Writing Firsts I Can Sometimes Hard Pages Rewards Checks Ice Mail Chapters Flood Cream Sections Ice Cream My Boyfriend Cones Ice Cream Cones

Author:Sophy Burnham

“All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.”

Source: Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

“Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.”

Firsts Hard Cutting Habit Stones Adamant

Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.”

Firsts Hard Wisdom Hate Causes Common Support Courage Knowing Wise Lessons Seeking Common Sense Abandon Being Wise Forsake

Author:Philip Gulley

“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.”

Thinking Way Writing Firsts Hard Week Block Ran Neurotic

Book:Sweet Bird of Youth

Source: Sweet Bird of Youth

“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.”

Years Firsts Hard Given Challenges Decision Growing Fronts Promise Shapes Green Edges Horizon Discovering Hard Things

Author:Howard Thurman

“Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!”

Firsts Hard Young Sea Land Rocks Kings Daughter Rose Winter Warm Rings Snow My Daughter Bells Locks Beard Sunny Icy

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.”

Firsts Long Important Hard Simple Study Students Painting Relation Fundamentals Important Things Spots Realization

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.”

Want Trying Firsts Wells May Hard Winning Memories Dad Drama My Dad

Author:Kim Su-mi

“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.”

Men Want Mind Firsts Long Two Hard Use Next Hard Work Two Things Good Times Worthwhile I Want You Going To Work Having A Good Time Sour Make Up Your Mind

Book:A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Kind Stills Hard Hours Levels Wake Up Coffee Concentration Sunday Lighters Weekdays

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.”

Writing Firsts Looks May Hard Glances

Book:Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

Source: Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

“You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Hard Enough Hard Work Broken Careful Consideration Precious Things

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance can depend on the individual unit. Some are excellent, filled with hoorah and first-class warriors. A few are absolutely horrible; most are somewhere in between. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.”

“Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever. And sometimes a C and even a D. That's kind of the easy, or at least easier part. The hard part is finding that special, perfect way to order things - how many times to do A before B and back and how the second verse differs from the first. That's all we got.”

Way Firsts Kind Sometimes Hard Might Song Order Easy Perfect Special Easier Findings Verses Chorus

Author:David First

“It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.”

Years Firsts Important Hard Creative Stage Example Benefits Destruction Rate Wave Enormous Rail Deregulation Creative Destruction

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Giving Firsts May Said Hard Strong Deals Poet Genius Faults Mistaken Can Not Inclination Liable Propensity Giving Way

Book:Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism

Source: Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism

“[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.”

Knows Firsts Hard Dream Bigs Would Be Careers Huge Green Pops Lists Singers Height Throat Cuba Lumps Professional Career

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?”

People Firsts Different Hard States Lasts Faces Courses Next White Happened New York First Time England Mad Clinton Drunk Next Time Last Words Unreal Blair Euphoria Good Words New Faces

Author:Doris Lessing

“I guess most of us would rather not discuss cancer because we are all afraid we might be told we have it. It's hard for people to even say the word, and that's the first obstacle you have to overcome when you are diagnosed with the disease. I think once you understand a little more about it ... I don't mean it gets any easier ... but I think you give it more in-depth thought about how you're going to deal with it.”

People Thinking Giving Firsts Mean Littles Hard Might Deals Easier Disease Overcoming Depth Cancer Obstacles

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not, you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.”

Want Firsts Hard Approach Phones Driven Application Platforms Volume Google Androids Vendors Working So Hard

Author:Eric Schmidt

“A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.”

Firsts Hard Easy Skills Kissing Bottles First Kiss Maidens Olives

Author:Gelett Burgess

“It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.”

Firsts Hard Would Be Pain Reading Effects Style Serious Hard Work Return Criticism Method Proof Temples Examination Headache Stamina Piercings Syphilis Migraine Close Reading

Author:Louis Aragon

“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.”

People Firsts Kind Mean Different Hard Play Wanted Guy Stuff Streets Poet Materials Perception Notion Different Kinds

Author:Matt Dillon

“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.”

“It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all your whole-grain needs. I can see how at the first opportunity you'd just have to get out there and - sow.”

Needs Firsts I Can Hard Whole Care Guy Opportunity Girlfriend Just One Grain Devoted Whole Grains

Author:Emma McLaughlin

“No matter what I tend to be doing, generally people always think I'm crazy, first of all, because I'm always talking about things in the future that haven't happened yet, and people have a hard time believing what's gonna happen. Secondly, I'm almost always a contrarian, whatever direction everybody else is going in, I'm probably figuring out a way to go in a completely opposite direction.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Believe Matter Hard Happens Talking Happened Crazy Havens Opposites No Matter What Hard Times

Author:Trip Hawkins

“One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.”

Knows Firsts Doe Said Hard Next Games Bits Taken Football Findings First Time Golf Managers Soccer Reserves Chairman

Author:Ron Atkinson

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom and opportunity are not just for the elite, but the birthright of every citizen; that property is not just something enjoyed by a few, but can be owned by any individual who works hard and makes correct decisions.”

People Knows World Needs Firsts Hard Hands America Opportunity Politics Individual Decision Economy Hard Work Citizens Property Enjoyed Developing Liberalism Elites Birthright Central America

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.”

People Firsts Hard Challenges Economy Computer Sells Decades Personal Computers

Author:Steve Case

“The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.”

Firsts Hard Religious Lines Atheism Particular Positive Atheism Squares Propositions Emphasis Preference Monument Graphic

Author:John Paul Stevens

“Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.”

Men Firsts Hard Done Today Pieces Progress Groups Team Fields Ten Thirds Committed Defense Coaches Conversion Tigers Congratulations Fixing Get It Done Work In Progress Lsu Auburn Fixing Things

Author:Les Miles

“We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.”

“Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.”

“It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age.”

People Firsts Hard Age Jobs Wife Crazy Twenties Manage Miserable Hated Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Frank Stella

“I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."”

Knows Want Years Firsts Hard Problem Causes Born Roles Media Judging Drug Majors Blame Faults Marketing Spread Cracks Cocaine Dealer Prosecutor Drug Dealers

Author:Rick Ross

“Before, I was always the kid that was in the background. It was hard for me to get casted in even one program, and when people thought that I was a guest on a show for the first time when I had been on before, it saddened me. Suddenly getting the spotlight? That's! Not! True!”

People Firsts Hard Shows Kids First Time Program Backgrounds Guests Spotlight Saddened

Author:IU

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