“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.” KindKidsWantedSchoolOpportunityFeltFiguresToughTough TimesFitting Author:Brie Larson
“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.” IfsGivingTryingFirstsEndsNightEasyStuffDealsTreeSpecialFiguresLateToughRainSeasonsMiraclePlantSeedsSoilSunshineWhat IfWowArrangementsReserved Author:Jim Rohn
“My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.” IfsKnowsRunningAbleCompanyWorryEnvironmentFiguresToughStrategyWorkersBiggest Fear Author:Paul Polman
“Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.” WantFiguresBalanceToughProducersDisappoint Author:Ryuhei Kitamura
“Just like in any other movie, too, we've had car troubles. We've had issues with weather. We've had issues with you name it. You can't predict this tough but as long as you go at it with the mindset that it doesn't matter what happens, we'll just figure out a way around it - that's the reason that I'm here.” WayLongMatterReasonHappensNamesIssuesTroubleCarFiguresToughMindsetWeather Author:Todd Farmer
“Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big advantage that we had was that we had eight scripts written before we started shooting, or even started casting. We had a really good opportunity to look at it and figure out where we were going to go and how to do it. Once we got a cast, which I love, then we started doing some revisions to make sure that they fit into it.” TryingLooksStoriesBigsOpportunityWrittenFiguresFitToughAdvantageStructureScriptsCastsEightI RealizedShootingCastingRevisionGood Opportunity Author:Remi Aubuchon
“Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.” KidsSchoolGuyCertainStrongBlackFiguresToughMasculineDemeaningBlack Guys Author:Lynne Stewart
“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.” MayDoeMomentsCharacterWould BeGuyBitsEnjoyPresidentMiddleFiguresGoes OnHeroToughSuicideInstanceBridgesHuntingReformersExpeditionsLarger Than LifeTough GuyCommitting SuicideJumpersErdoganBosphorus Author:Peter Kenyon
“The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.” KnowsFiguresToughBasesResponseAdministrationBarackHacking Author:John Kasich
“It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.” DifferentAmericaFiguresToughEuropeIndonesiaNorth AmericaLiving Wage Author:John Malkovich
“No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.” WayShouldLittlesLongEndsMatterEasyWaitingPartyPathFiguresRight NowToughCelebrateWhere You AreCelebrationHaul Author:Bethenny Frankel