“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.” IfsHardWorkDecisionHard WorkSkillsPresidentialSubstitutesHardworkWork Hard Play HardTalent And Hard Work Author:James A. Garfield
“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.” HardWantedFilmYoungPurposeWalksClearWalkingDirectorsSkillsTheaterVictimSticksTortureHard TimesKillersBrutalYoung WomenSpineCreeksCredentialsTrackingMutilation Author:Roger Ebert
“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.” WorldWayYearsBookHardHandsCareTodayRememberThreeNextChanceExistenceTakenPoetReaderSkillsMouthsTownsLuckOne WayReviewsRomeThree YearsSmall TownFellowshipPrintedOld DaysLuck And SkillPrinted Books Author:Randall Jarrell
“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.” FirstsHardEasySkillsKissingBottlesFirst KissMaidensOlives Author:Gelett Burgess
“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.” IfsThinkingYearsHardLastsThreeGamesLostKnownCareersFourHard WorkSkillsShootingStayingGymLast YearRatsGym Rats Author:Gilbert Arenas
“Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.” KnowsShouldWritingTryingHardStoriesSeemsEasySoundKnow HowProduceSkillsSentencesMisleadTrumpetsWeird Things Author:Gail Carson Levine