Hard Quotes

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob.

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.

It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs.

I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.

[Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was smart in business, works hard, and can be sexy and a mom. A powerful but still sexy, nonconforming woman.

Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.

Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.

[In 2004] That's how I got a relationship with Steve Jobs. Because I listened really hard to him cause he's the smartest guy I ever worked for.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

I do not know what to think of it. We are working hard and improving and we just need to execute better.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

I find words really hard.

Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

It's a strange life, isn't it? ...A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo... home is a family.

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.