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“I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.”

Ifs Believe Doe Made Important Hard Enough Today Periods Eternal Tragedy Right Thing Falsehood Recalls Overlooked

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.”

Ifs Want Hard Problem Solve

Author:Brewster Kahle

“What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.”

Ifs Feels Should Self Hard States Accepting Achieve Worst Willing Conscious Tasks Good Things Opening Vulnerable Insecure Self Conscious Your Presence

Author:Esther Earl

“Its hard to measure yourself if nobody is challenging you.”

Ifs Hard Challenges

Author:John Tomac

“We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.”

Ifs Years Ideas Hard Feelings Might Guy Natural Evolution Sight Ghost Sensitive Suspects Bus Predator Uneasy Perfectly Natural Bus Stops Uneasy Feelings

Author:Seth Shostak

“I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.”

Ifs Knows Believe Hard Lying I Believe Can Do Born Loses Talent Hard Work Succeed I Believe In Acquire

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.”

Ifs Hard Cooking Cooks Vegetables

Author:Bill Watterson

“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

“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

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Writing Stills Two Hard Views Wife Honest Criticism Critics Point Of View Reviews Unfortunate Ignored Adultery Stink Admission Shady

Author:William Styron

“When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.”

Ifs Hard Facts Wonder Enemy Fellows Embrace Rejects Traitor Countrymen Rejects You

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Mind Littles Hard Money Rich Heard Ten Satisfied My Way Rich Man Hmm

Author:Bob Dylan

“You just have to work really hard to tune out the noise and the static. Because it gets louder, and people really have an opinion, and you don't want to shy away from taking chances for fear of what people will say, or living in the wreckage of the future [of] what may be if I do this.”

People Ifs Want May Hard Chance Opinion Noise Tunes Shy Take A Chance Static Wreckage

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.”

Ifs Hard Enough Guy Saws Revolution One Day British Wheels Mates Mentality Unfortunate Away From You Rolls Royce

Author:Kerry Packer

“It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.”

Ifs Hard Praise Fellows Shoulders Bows Chips

Author:Billy Rose

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

“A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”

Ifs Men Wells Looks War Hard Done

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.”

People Ifs Knows Way Hard Might Happens Known Weakness Developing Reaching Do You Know Mediocrity Claws

Book:The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

“Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)”

Ifs Giving Hard Easy Can Do Poor Forgiving Charity Plenty Best Things Goods

Author:Meher Baba

“He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.”

Ifs Men Kind Hard Whole Pain Reading Left Language Nations My Own Mankind Particular Harder Doctrine Demonstration Orderly

Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition

“The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.”

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.”

Ifs Hard Enough Fall Chance Greater Harder Get Over Fence Chances Are

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“I'm looking for a hard-headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed”

Ifs Knows Hard Blessed Being Blessed

Author:Cat Stevens

“The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.”

Ifs Knows Hard Reason Enough Use Body Chance Animal Know How Pieces Creatures Bird Balls Flesh Hunting One Piece Squirrels

Author:James F. Cooper

“I understand... the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you'll be fine for the rest of the way.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Looks Hard Fine Easier Pressure Who You Are Shoulders

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Fighting Opportunity Difficult Chance Worry Our Lives Window Wake Up Corners Bitter Hard Times Difficult Times Around The Corner

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.”

Ifs Thinking Real Hard Kids Responsibility Wonderful Harder Real Life Grounded Cleaning Bathroom Laundry

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“If you want to be like me, work hard and believe in it, and if you don't believe in it, get rid of it.”

Ifs Want Believe Hard Hard Work Don't Believe Like Me

Author:Steve Bunce

“If you want to make it as a sportsperson - Become knowledgeable in the sport you want to participate in. Think about the sport and what it can offer in its entirety. You shouldn't want to become a professional sportsperson because of the money. There's a lot more to gain from being involved in sport. Work hard to get what you want. If it's your ambition, go for it. You don't have to be the best in the world to make it as an elite athlete. You need to be a grafter and be prepared to sacrifice.”

“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Hard Three Games Winning Player Team Football Essence Eight Extras Trust Me

Author:Alex Ferguson

“If you make sure that you always work as hard as you can, on and off the ice, you will achieve your goals. It might not be instantly, it might not be next week, but you will get to where you want to be.”

Ifs Want Hard Might Next Goal Week Achieve Ice And Off Next Week Achieving Your Goals

Author:Phil Hill

“Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.”

“People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.”

People Ifs Way Want Trying Hard Faces Nations Transforming

Author:Marianne Williamson

“If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you.”

Ifs Believe Hard Play Values Rights Willing Hard Work Proud Constitution Independence Bills Our Family Declaration If You Believe Declaration Of Independence Bill Of Rights

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.”

Ifs World Trying Hard Whole Whole World

Book:The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'

“Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.”

Ifs Needs Hard Done Use Easy Minutes Benefits Weight Spending Plenty Extras Twelve Chasing Calories Seventeen Treadmills Take It Easy Extra Time Cardiovascular

Author:Jack LaLanne

“My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.”

Ifs Ends Hard Enough Hate Study College Brother Doctors My Brother Papa

Author:Conor Oberst

“I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.”

People Ifs Thinking Said Hard Play Facts Care Certain Fine Band Dear Great Things Going Away Weed Gimmicks

Author:Jack White

“Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.”

Ifs Life Hard Life Is Meant To Be

Author:Ivan Panin

“The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.”

“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Trying Hard Use Answers Accepting Wonder Taken Asking What If Way Of Thinking Road Not Taken

Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.”

Source: Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel

“The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.”

Ifs World Years Different Hard Might Asks Winning Answers Percent Baseball Series League Experts Nfl Bowls Yankees Caps Super Bowl Seattle World Series

Author:Bob DuPuy

“I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.”

Ifs Believe Hard Would Be Kids Wanted Hard Work Succeed Ambition Intellectual My Friends Clever

Author:Irving Sandler

“If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.”

Ifs Thinking Years Hard Lasts Three Games Lost Known Careers Four Hard Work Skills Shooting Staying Gym Last Year Rats Gym Rats

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.”

Ifs Knows Trying Looks Hard Hurt Careers Fantasy Hard Work

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.”

Ifs Heart Hard Tree Profit Rendering

Book:The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems

Source: The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems

“If I'm wearing jeans all day at work, it's [hard] to slip into a dress and make yourself feel like you were born in it. That sort of thing can really be the difference between a good look and a great look. You can have a great dress, but when you put it on and you feel like it's embodying who you are that day, that's not just fashion, that's style!”

Ifs Feels Looks Hard Born Differences Fashion Style Like You Dresses Who You Are Working It Slips Jeans Looking Good

Author:Debby Ryan

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