“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.” ThinkingPersonsHardReasonComedySeeingSeriousDramaHarderSillyDramaticCraveBeing Silly Author:Evan Peters
“When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.” HardFilmEnjoyAudienceSeeingWorthwhile Author:Karl Urban
“For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.” PeopleWorldHardStatesEnoughBodyLightActionSpiritualUniverseCoursesLeftAttentionSeeingAirFieldsPressureWideSensesInvisibleDevelopingVisibleCorrespondenceGreat Spiritual Author:Evelyn Underhill
“Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.” PeopleTwoHardHelpingSchoolGrowing UpGrowingSeeingFrontsDadCatholicMy DadSeatsHelp MeToiletsCatholic School Author:Mia Love
“A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull.” MindHardDesireSeeingEmotionalPerceptionDullSwingsSignalsDeep Within Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.” HardSeeingBasesPerceive Author:Frederick Lenz
“The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.” PeopleWayI CanHardDiesStuffDealsWatchesViolenceSeeingHarderHard TimesHorrific Author:Matthew Lillard
“The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.” IfsKnowsNeedsMindBelieveArtRealHardStatesPhilosophyInspirationEyeI BelieveProcessDealsEmotionVisionStruggleSeeingBirthDepthCome UpSurfaceReformHard TimesEtcCopiesOverwhelmingMy ThoughtsUnderwater Author:Hiroko Sakai
“As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.” HardWould BeSeeingSceneBattleNewsOpeningSavingRealismCringeSaving Private Ryan Author:Tim Robbins
“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.” ThinkingWayHardRememberAudienceSeeingIncrediblesHard TimesConcertsInvited Author:John Lurie
“I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.” IfsThinkingWellsHardUseTogetherGuySportsSeeingTalentDangerousHard WorkRight NowGrantedThat Guy Author:Ivan Lendl
“The biggest thing is having a son. I got attached to him. Seeing him periodically is hard. Watching him grow up on pictures and videos is hard.” HardGrowsGrowing UpSeeingSonVideoHaving A Son Author:Shawn Marion
“Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.” PeopleWayWantLooksHardSeeingLike YouAmbitionComfortableNakedPushing Author:Clive Owen
“The main problem of America is that you're seeing people working all over this country two jobs, they're working three jobs, and they're getting nowhere in a hurry. They're working hard. They can't afford to send their kids to college in many instances. They can't afford child care for their little babies. They're worried to death about retirement.” PeopleChildrenLittlesTwoCountryHardProblemCareKidsJobsAmericaThreeSeeingCollegeBabyInstanceWorriedRetirementChild CareTwo Jobs Author:Bernie Sanders
“Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.” HumansHardPassionLeftHuman BeingsSeeingFrontsHard TimesDevices Author:Gene Robinson
“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.” WritingMindFirstsHeartBookMatterHardUseEyeOpportunityMy OwnAnimalSeeingMovementOfficeFindingsUnderstoodFunctionDifficultyDissection Author:William Harvey
“To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so, as the net is full of holes. Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love and happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and you overeat. You want friendship and you exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them - your very seeing them will make them go away.” WantLooksMadeWarHardPainUniverseStepsSeeingHard WorkHatredHolesContradictionRemoveGoing AwayLongevityExploitsEvery StepHappiness And LovePeace Love Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.” MadeI CanHardDoneStoriesTermCan DoSeeingHugeBrilliantTalesFairyFairy TaleNot InterestedArtifactsMovie Making Author:Philip Pullman
“Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will suffer dramatically. Detailed proof is hard in ocean science, but I think we're already seeing big ocean changes caused by climate change, such as starvation of whales, seabirds, and other animals off the coast US west coast.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsHardBigsSufferingAnimalAttentionIssuesSeeingSeaOceanVictimWestClimateClimate ChangeProofCoastStarvationWhalesWest CoastSea Life Author:Mark Powell
“The sports are also hard on my body, and I do have a longstanding bad back due to an injury some years ago. I don't regret any part of it though. I love what I do and my sporting career has taken me to some wonderful places and seeing the world.” WorldYearsHardBodySportsCareersTakenWonderfulSeeingRegretYears AgoDuesInjurySeeing The WorldDon't RegretWonderful Places Author:Liz Halliday
“It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...” WorldFeelsTryingHeartLittlesI CanSometimesHardMomentsRememberBeautyToo MuchSeeingStupidMy HeartGratitudeRainFlowMadRelaxBalloonsSingle MomStop TryingBeauty Of The World Author:Alan Ball
“Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.” HardUsePlansSeeingEasierTaxesDegreesBasesDifficultyTradeAgreementElsewhereExceedCapsReductionCo2 Author:Al Gore
“We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.” PeopleIfsWayWellsLooksPersonsDifferentHardMemoriesCasesSeeingMetsSittingAssumingBounds Author:David Hockney
“It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.” HardMightActorsPowerfulSeeingCrowdsOverwhelmingHarry PotterPotters Author:Yann Martel
“It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.” WorldImportantHardFilmEasySeeingPerspectiveHappeningsAround The WorldShelterDistractedEasy To Get Author:Jennifer Connelly
“Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.” HardFunSeeingHard WorkPushing Author:Bonnie Prudden
“One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.” SaidHardDifficultSeeingTroubleTheoryExpectationsDirectFeaturesImposing Author:Michael Crichton
“I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and squeaking, and then: nothing. It stopped. I looked out the window ahead of me and it was clear. I looked out the back and there was the rain, still going. Nobody said anything, but there it was, a near miracle, a rain line, a way of seeing just where something starts, when usually you are just in the middle of it before you notice it. That's how it feels to me now, to not want to be like (that) anymore. I see the line.” WayWantFeelsSaidStillsCountryHardRememberMovingLinesClearSeeingMiddleRainWindowMiracleDriving Author:Elizabeth Berg
“Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.” PeopleCountryHardHappensWinningMillionsSeeingNbaCheerChampionshipRepresentingNba Championships Author:Manu Ginobili
“There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him, or her) you fall in love so hard, so fast, that your soul is pulled out through your eyes. I like that story.” SoulHardStoriesEyeBeautifulFallSeeingAngelFalling In LoveTalesYour SoulAngel Of Death Author:Neil Gaiman
“We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.” HardPassionChallengesQualitySuccessfulSeeingHard WorkExcellenceEnterpriseAwardsRemindersNever ChangeAmerican BusinessPassion For Excellence Author:George W. Bush
“We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.” PeopleIfsTryingLooksHardThreeAsksHoursWatchesSeeingFansNew YorkCollegeBasketballTheaterBunchTunesCollege BasketballLive Theater Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn't have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had grown up with, songs with great melodies. After 35 years as a songwriter, I appreciate the value of a good melody because I know how hard it is to write one. So I presented them in a new way, with piano, keyboards, strings, and a contemporary rhythm section. I just treated the melody with a bit of dignity and a bit of style.” KnowsMenWayWritingYearsHas BeensMatterHardValuesSongBitsKnow HowForeverSeeingTreeStyleAppreciateDignityRegardWoodsTreatedContemporaryRhythmPianoGloriousStringsMelodyIrelandNew WaysSongwritersSectionsKeyboardsRhythm Section Author:Phil Coulter
“Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.” ThinkingMenFeelsShouldHardPoliticalRolesSeeingSorrowSouthResistanceDishesKoreaMarginsSouth KoreaFoilsSeasoningTrivial Things Author:Kim Hyesoon
“It's been cool to see on the Voice all these up-and-coming artists from all over the country just develop and follow their careers as well, because we were all at a beginning point together. Now, after seeing the business side and behind-the-scenes stuff, it's hard for me to watch reality TV and play along like they want you to.” WantWellsCountryHardPlayRealityTogetherArtistStuffSidesVoiceBehindsCareersWatchesSeeingTvsSceneReality TvBehind The Scenes Author:Curtis Grimes
“The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work.” WorldHardFeelingsSeeingHard WorkBenefitsRewards Author:Kevin Hart
“I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.” IfsGivingHardSeeingBalanceGhostSincerityShellsLinkedCandyInvokeApparitionsHard Candy Author:Alex Lemon
“ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA revelations played a big part but there are all sorts of other issues too, like inequality and gentrification in the Bay Area, and labor abuses everywhere from Amazon's warehouse, to Apple's factories, to start-ups like Uber and TaskRabbit.” PeopleYearsHardBigsLastsAsksIssuesSeeingMajorsAreasLaborAbuseInequalityApplesRevelationsFactoriesLast YearAmazonNsaWarehouseBay AreaGentrificationHard QuestionsUber Author:Astra Taylor
“I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsFirstsLittlesSaidI CanCountrySometimesHardHappensRememberHateChurchPowerfulSeeingStageSittingInspiredEdgesBurningSatLionsSantaRiotDetroitBarbaraVistasUnitarianSanta BarbaraUnitarian Church Author:Sam Hamill
“Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.” PeopleIfsRealHardRememberCitiesSeeingFansInspireOnline Author:Nina Nesbitt
“I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.” EndsHardHateSongSeeingMusicianI HateHard TimesCriticize Author:Margaret Cho
“I enjoy seeing anybody do good. I have no hard feelings.” HardFeelingsEnjoySeeing Author:Raylee Johnson
“People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.” PeopleHardSeeingRocksStageOfficeSittingToolsClubsSettingSettingsHard TimesDocuments Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.” ThinkingBelieveLongHardWould BeStrongLinesSeeingGroupsMovementWeakGenderPassiveStereotypeAsianLatinaDocile Author:Melissa Harris-Perry