Best hard & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'”

Ifs Wells Two Hard Practice Months Directors Call Me Two Months

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.”

People Ifs Thinking Hard Certain Stars Middle Hollywood Asking Assuming Busy Actresses Lists Movie Star Hollywood Movies

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.”

Ifs Hard If I Could Hard Life

Author:Natalia Makarova

“I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Hard Hurt Wonder Audience Office Boxes One Way These Days Just One Hurt Me Box Office

Author:Paul Mazursky

“I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Wells Hard Kids Fun Easy Sports Enjoy Levels Golf Woods Mediums Swings Tigers Good Way Golf Swing Wii

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.”

Ifs Doe Hard Attention Miserable

Author:Sienna Miller

“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.”

Ifs Knows Years Looks Made Hard Hard Times Awkward Wince

Author:Jodie Foster

“Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.”

People Ifs Hard Hands Film Certain Levels Hard Work Lucky Glory Standing Injustice Recognition Oscars Mixtures Standing There

Author:Walter Murch

“One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Hard Enough Life Is Work Out

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly move on. It's hard enough to sustain some self confidence without being reminded of things we'd rather not revisit but, in the end, it comes with the territory.”

Ifs Ends Self Hard Done Enough Happens Moving Roles Pops Self Confidence Territory

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don't say your friend's retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don't be mean to people.”

People Ifs Want Mean Hard Use Hurt Pages Foolish Call Me Disability Bully Whatever It Takes Retarded Facebook Page It Really Hurts

Author:Lauren Potter

“Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.”

Ifs Want Giving Should Country Hard Able Criticism Albums Hard Times Bless Getting Old God Bless Ageism

Author:Guy Oseary

“Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.”

Ifs Thinking Different Sometimes Hard Chance Results Mistake If I Could Making Mistakes Mentality Good Chance Different Mentality

Author:Alain Prost

“Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.”

Ifs Hard Film Actors Difficult Crew

Author:Alan Parker

“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.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills I Can Hard Age Beautiful Attention Five Cutting Cease Forty

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Stories Use Opportunity Social Deals Technology Media Social Media Traditional Publishers New Technology Proactive

Author:Ian Rankin

“You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Hard Hard Work Elements Deserve Luck Critical Great Idea

Author:Ian Rankin

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.”

Ifs Littles Stills Hard Hard Work Argument Workers Fairness Minimum Disturbed Minimum Wage

Author:Christina Romer

“If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.”

People Ifs Should Hard Doubt Couple Jokes Negative Lays Patient Hard Times Be Patient Radar Having A Hard Time

Author:Michael J. Fox

“You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.”

Ifs Knows Hard Hard Work Succeed Entrepreneur Passionate Doing You

Author:Jeff Raikes

“I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.”

People Ifs Knows Ends Hard Stories Water Team Entrepreneur Optimistic Desert Fortunate Hard Times Through Hard Times

Author:Ben Silbermann

“I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Opportunity Given Given Opportunity

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.”

Ifs Knows Long Hard Dream Able Wanted Winning Felt Determination Tennis Motivated Long Life Slam Stay Motivated Drive And Determination

Author:Samantha Stosur

“If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.”

Ifs Want Hard Done Enough Want Something

Author:Billy Strayhorn

“A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.”

Ifs Needs Hard Body Sound Realizing Simple Crazy Exercise Gains Weight Your Body Cycles Pregnant

Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.”

Ifs Said Matter Hard Lasts America Names Hard Work Drink Coffee Milk Anything Is Possible Where You Come Lattes

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.”

Ifs Humans Important Hard Dream Realizing Important Things American Dream

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“If there are problems with the subtle physical body, it's very hard for the kundalini to flow.”

Ifs Hard Problem Body Flow Subtle Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.”

People Ifs Want Looks Hard Might Attention Situation Higher Mirrors People In Your Life Blocked

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and indulgent.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Cases Buddhism Balance Lazy Sloppy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.”

People Ifs Sometimes Hard Happiness Life Is Purpose Forget Buddhism Caught Purpose Of Life Caught Up Fog

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.”

Ifs Looks Kind Hard Wonder Laughing Shapes Mad Folks Handle Hard To Handle

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Hard Care Principles Economy Economic Hard Truths Specifics Doctoring Tender Loving Care

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Hard Stories Moving Fall Challenges Perfect Scene Projects Moving Forward Hard Times Continuing Traps Coping Perfectionism Rewriting Continuing On

Author:Laini Taylor

“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”

Ifs Children Hard Helping Kids House Childhood Emotional Lucky Our Children Legacy Remembered Your Children Distinction Lucky You

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.”

People Ifs World Should Believe Hard Play Walks Perfect Fantasy Ideals Fantasy Worlds Retouching

Author:Gemma Ward

“I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Sometimes Hard I Believe Mouths Argument I Believe In Quitting Hard Times Accomplished Time Keeping

Author:Kenny Wormald

“I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.”

Ifs Want Feels Believe Sometimes Hard Play Whole Able Bits Creating Guitar Honestly Tone Spectrum Laid Back

Author:Angus Young

“I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.”

Ifs Long Hard Enough Bigs Company Records Long Time Sells Target Cool Things Really Long Big Companies Working Really Hard

Author:Ryan Adams

“You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Important Hard States Jobs Courses Deals Race One Thing Easier Campaigns Debate Presidential Senate Consistency

Author:Michael Bennet

“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.”

Ifs Knows Trying Wells I Can Hard Kids Honest Work Out Being Honest Try Your Best

Author:Ryan Lochte

“Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.”

Ifs Hard Bigs Stars Directors

Author:Chris Messina

“In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.”

Ifs World Hard Enough Feelings Today Hard Work Smart Burden Clever Anything Is Possible Today's World

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.”

Ifs Writing Hard Plans Emotional Harder Emotional Things

Author:Lauren Miller

“When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.”

Ifs Trying Looks Hard Bigs Obvious Reports Google Fashionable Big Business Analysts Skype

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Character Hollywood Chinese Really Great Asian Great Character

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Hard Enough Shows Body Loss Broken Degrees Stronger Filled Bones Medical Holes Cracks Replaced Human Body Healed Healed You

Book:Come Home: A Novel

Source: Come Home: A Novel

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