Hard Way Quotes - Page 6

• I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

  Karen Allen

  Jobs, Yarn, Tangled

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
  It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
  It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
  It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

  Adrienne Rich

  Love, Self, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Falling In Love, Jumping, Scary

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• I learn things late-and only the hard way.

  James Ellroy

  Way, Late, Hard

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• For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

  Terry Pratchett

  Differences, Gold, Example

  "The Truth". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2000.

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• A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Fighting, Fire

  "Nelson Mandela obituary" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2013.

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• Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

  Rick Riordan

  Team, Fighting, Good Relationship

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• Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

  John Elway

  Thinking, Fire, Done

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• Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for you. Do it better than it need be done. Next time doing it will be child's play. Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. I know this sounds old-fashioned. It is, but it has built the world.

  Harlow Curtice

  Jobs, Children, Adversity

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• The right way is the hard way.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Way, Hard

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• She did it the hard way.

  Bette Davis

  Tombstone, Way, Gravestone

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

  Allen Iverson

  Growing Up, Hard Times, Way

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• I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers.

  Richard Bacon

  Blue, People, Lessons

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• What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Way, Knows, Hard

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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