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• Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before you start writing. Without a sense of direction, you can get lost in the middle.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Writing, Stories, Lost

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• I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.

  Cristie Kerr

  Light, Second Place

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• I play in a position that demands hard work and generosity and little glamour, but I like it.  It’s my job and I like it.  I would rather intercept and steal 10 balls than shoot.  That’s what I’m here for, to make everyone else’s jobs easier.

  Sergio Busquets

  Football, Jobs, Hard Work

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• Successful investors like stocks better when they’re going down. When you go to a department store or a supermarket, you like to buy merchandise on sale, but it doesn’t work that way in the stock market. In the stock market, people panic when stocks are going down, so they like them less when they should like them more. When prices go down, you shouldn’t panic, but it’s hard to control your emotions when you’re overextended, when you see your net worth drop in half and you worry that you won’t have enough money to pay for your kids’ college.

  Seth Klarman

  Kids, Successful, College

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• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Awards

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• Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and apply intricate computer models to find attractive opportunities or assess underlying value. The hard part is discipline, patience, and judgment. Investors need discipline to avoid the many unattractive pitches that are thrown, patience to wait for the right pitch, and judgment to know when it is time to swing.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Simple, Swings

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• We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

  Seth Klarman

  Confused, Thinking, Insightful

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• You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.

  Elena Dementieva

  Perfect, Trying

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• I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I think the system is very wasteful of taxpayers’ dollars. It’s also very wasteful of human potential. I found that most people whom I was locked up with were, you know, good people who have skills and value. Prison is a missed opportunity to nurture those things.

  Piper Kerman

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

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• Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

  Jason Calacanis

  Finishing, Easy, Starting

  "Driving Into A New Venture: Insights From A Serial Entrepreneur". Interview with J. Kelly Hoey, medium.com. June 14, 2016.

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• My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want.

  Wyomia Tyus

  Father, Want, Used

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• The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

  Nick Harkaway

  People, Shooting, Remember

  "Angelmaker". Book by Nick Harkaway, February 2, 2012.

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• I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.

  Nick Harkaway

  Wine, Sunshine, Dark

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• If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.

  Manu Ginobili

  Trying, Court, Baskets

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• You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.

  Ryan Holiday

  Hard Work, Character, Culture

  Ryan Holiday (2012). “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.201, Penguin

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• Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

  Gina Rinehart

  Hard Work, Opportunity, People

  "Do the rich just work harder? Some CEOs certainly think so" by Jana Kasperkevic, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2014.

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• Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

  Bill Delahunt

  Integrity, Financial, Social

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• Each one of us has some goal we want to reach, and we must work toward that goal one step at a time. You can’t reach toward that goal and expect it on the first try. All your small steps will bring you just a little closer. You must continue to work toward this goal. You may take a few steps back or be at a standstill, but you will be learning from each step. Through hard work, self-confidence and motivation, you will find ways to move ahead. You alone can help yourself to move ahead in life and gain personal satisfaction. You only get out of life what you put into it.

  Sid Luckman

  Motivation, Moving, Hard Work

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• This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.

  Alexander Nehamas

  Book, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my readers for their support. I am entirely indebted to you. I took this picture (it is a photo of Togashi wearing a rabbit mask) at a certain party by the way, not a shady membership club. I'll work hard to crank out dozens of volumes. I promise not to complain. I won't run away. I won't lose it. I think. Maybe.

  Yoshihiro Togashi

  Running, Party, Hard Work

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• I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.

  Jermichael Finley

  Packers, Get Back, Nations

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• I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

  Aliko Dangote

  Believe, Hard Work, Joy

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• But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.

  Anastasia Myskina

  Practice, Play, Tennis

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• My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.

  Brad Fitzpatrick

  Running, Failing, Crash

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• Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

  Susan Vreeland

  Thinking

  Susan Vreeland (2004). “The Forest Lover”, p.172, Penguin

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