“Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.” PeopleWantKindHardSchoolLevelsFindingsAthleteWho I AmLike Me Author:Sally Pearson
“It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing.” MindKindHardFilmGuyBloodGoreBlood And Gore Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.” WellsKindI CanSometimesHardPlayWinningOpposites Author:Agnieszka Radwanska
“People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMatterHardFactsRunningThreeCan DoCasesEconomyPlansOfficeOilMisleadGlobal EconomyGasolineBumperStickerBumper StickerRunning For OfficeGasoline Prices Author:Ken Salazar
“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.” IfsLooksKindHardWonderLaughingShapesMadFolksHandleHard To Handle Author:Jason Sudeikis
“It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.” KindHardAgeJobsLostFiguresWho You Are Author:Jodi Sweetin
“I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.” KindHardBodyLanguageGrowing UpGrowingHard TimesAwkwardBody Language Author:Analeigh Tipton
“I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?” FeelsKindHardEnoughGirlShapesOkayPersonal LifeSkinnyInadequateKind Of Girl Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I want people to say, 'She is really sweet and kind.' Anyone can work hard enough and be 'pretty.' Not many people are nice nowadays.” PeopleWantKindHardEnoughNiceSweetHard WorkReally Sweet Author:Amy Weber
“I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.” ThinkingKindHardUseAbleUsedYouthEmotionalApproachSingingWorking ItJust Being Author:K. D. Lang
“I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.” MenKindHardSafeScriptsLaughedDvds Author:Steve Zahn
“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.” NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home Author:Steven Levitt
“The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a [bulldozer] blade into even marginally hard ground. They are not bulldozers, they are tanks, whether you are talking about the M1 or the M60's. So if you are going to dig in a tank, you need to have some kind of equipment.” IfsNeedsKindHardProblemTalkingPressureSufficientEquipmentBladesTanksBulldozers Author:Frank Carlucci
“People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.” PeopleKindIdeasHardHateIndividualIssuesAspectKittenWikipediaEncyclopedia Author:Jimmy Wales
“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsKindHardCoursesIndividualRolesBandBigger Author:Stone Gossard
“I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.” KnowsWantFeelsTryingKindHardNextChanceWrittenDirectToneTranslateFrontiers Author:Dana Fox
“Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.” WayKindHardFeelingsLightNightCertainTermEffectsDirectorsCamerasValuableCommodityLensesSpadesHard DaysCamera Lenses Author:Michael Patrick Jann
“To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.” WayKindCountryHardAmericaSpeakEuropePressureIncrediblesOur CountryJapanSuperstar Author:Narada Michael Walden
“Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.” PeopleKindIdeasRealSelfHardJoyArtistPrayerBecomingCommunicateHard TimesRighteousnessExclusiveSelf RighteousnessReal JoySmugness Book:Journal of a Solitude Source: Journal of a Solitude
“We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when things were tough, but my dad always had a job. But I had a great time. I was kind of restless, and I had a hard time staying in school all day, so me and a few pals would duck out and go out on these various adventures.” YearsKindHardSchoolJobsWonderfulChildhoodAdventureDadToughMy DadVariousHard TimesStayingDucksRestlessGreat TimesBoyhoodPalsHad A Great TimeWonderful TimesStay In School Author:James Arness
“I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.” ThinkingKindHardFineAbstractExplorationEscapists Author:Cindy Sherman
“It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.” LoveMindHumansKindSoulHardAffectionHuman Soul Author:St. Jerome
“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.” ThinkingWritingFirstsKindStillsHardHoursLevelsWake UpCoffeeConcentrationSundayLightersWeekdays Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a considerable degree of free time, health, and an outlook of confident positivism. Thus, the religious authorities work hard to make and keep people feeling sinful, unworthy, and unhappy.” PeopleMenKindMayHardFeelingsSufferingOpportunityReligiousHard WorkDegreesAuthorityUnhappyPriestsDistressOutlookUnworthyFree TimeTime HealsPositivism Author:Robert Sheaffer
“A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.” KindHardSeemsLife IsReadyLessonsPagesLowsEmptyVicesInnocentSuperiorsInnocenceNew LifeFacing FearHard LessonsChicanery Author:Ouida
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.” ThinkingWayWantShouldLooksKindTwoBookIdeasDifferentHardUseProblemOpinionWonderfulWrittenMagicFiguresHigherMachinesIntelligentMethodSolveDevicesArtificial IntelligenceDifferent KindsBulletsAdministrativeIntelligent Machines Author:Marvin Minsky
“I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.” IfsKindMayPersonsHardTurnsActorsAdviceStudentsDirectorsFinalsExtrasFinal WordsWords Of Advice Author:Alan Alda
“It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.” IfsThinkingWritingKindHardLike YouEasierBandNegativeCriticsReviewsArticles Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“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.” WayFirstsKindSometimesHardMightSongOrderEasyPerfectSpecialEasierFindingsVersesChorus Author:David First
“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.” MenWellsKindSaidHardKidsYoungGuyNextLeftLinesWatchesFiveMinutesFieldsOne DayWeaknessSittingBallsLeagueOld ManDishesHelplessFenceCurvesFive MinutesBack And ForthPitcherRobinsRibsBattingCatchersWagnerLeft Field Author:Burleigh Grimes
“When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?” KnowsKindHardMemories Author:Bode Miller
“I really had to create my own style, because it's kind of hard being a 6-1 defensive end. I'm really like 6-4 - really.” KindEndsHardMy OwnStyleMy Own Style Author:Hugh Douglas
“I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.” KindChildrenHardBoysAggressiveCowsSheep Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.” PeopleIfsTryingKindImportantDifferentHardChanceTensionRelaxRelaxationRelaxed Author:Bill Murray
“What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.” ThinkingKindArtImportantHardProblemHappensLanguageAnswersPaintingPaintHistorianArt HistoryImportant Questions Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.” GivingKindPersonsHardPainSufferingRealizingForgetReturnMuch LovePain And SufferingAlleviate Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
“It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.” KnowsMenKindSaidHardHandsSkyHe ManSurrenderReachingShelterDealer Author:Leonard Cohen