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“I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.”

Hard Remember Forget Forget It

Author:Julia Leigh

“When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.”

Writing Ideas Hard Dream Remember Waiting Advice Negative Silent Data Capability Gathering Kipling

Author:Rose Tremain

“I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.”

Thinking Hard Remember Used Certain Habit Opposition Bureaucrats Ukrainian Old Habits

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.”

Author:Joe Chung

“Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.”

May Sometimes Hard Remember Voice Accepting Guilt Internals Friendly Reminding Messing Up

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.”

Should Children Hard Home Remember Order Games Walks Teacher Return Mass South Evening Curse Repeats Hardship Korean

Author:Kim Il-sung

“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.”

People Knows Persons Two Hard Shows Running Remember Used Black Rocks Months Black People Remember When Hbo Black Person

Author:Scott Raab

“Remember there is no success without hard work.”

Hard Remember Hard Work

Author:Sophocles

“The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.”

People Ends Hard Remember Death Sides Imagination Worst Effects Goes On Speech Argument Debate Censorship Insidious

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.”

Feels Children Hard Remember Essentials Expectations Discovery Areas Innocence Aesthetic Stride Switching Shuffling

Author:Sara Genn

“All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.”

Hard God Remember All Things Command Endeavour

Book:Moby Dick: Or, The Whale

Source: Moby Dick: Or, The Whale

“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.”

Trying Hard Remember Used Voice Exercise Yale Clearing Olden Days Sinuses

Author:Meryl Streep

“I'm trying to earn everything given to me. I play hard and I want guys to remember that when they play the Magic they have to face Dwight Howard. And when you face him you have to get after it.”

Want Trying Hard Play Remember Faces Guy Given Magic Play Hard Dwight I Want A Guy

Author:Dwight Howard

“Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.”

Looks Doe Hard Today Remember Causes Change Mirrors Scenery

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.”

Thinking Way Hard Remember Audience Seeing Incredibles Hard Times Concerts Invited

Author:John Lurie

“No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.”

Kind Children Persons Made Hard Running Remember Water Cities Enemy Demand Members Destruction Regard Ships Bombs Rescue Primitive Warfare Crew Lifeboats Handing Over

Author:Karl Donitz

“It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.”

Hard Age Remember Jesus Citizens Safe Surprise Kingdoms Disciple New Age

Book:Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir