Hardest Thing Quotes

• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

  Ben Fountain

  Struggle, Thinking, Things In Life

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Simple

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

  Eve Arnold

  Special, Trying, World

  "Eve Arnold obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2012.

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• One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Things In Life, Accepting

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• The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

  Shane Warne

  Opportunity, Worry, Firsts

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

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• The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

  Tracy Kidder

  Writing, Copying, Done

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• The hardest thing about sex scenes is that everybody is a judge. I don't know the last time you murdered somebody or blew anyone's brains out, but everyone has had sex and probably this morning, which means everyone has an opinion on how it should be done.

  Michael Douglas

  Morning, Sex, Mean

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• The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

  Sylvia Plath

  Regret, Past, Feminism

  "Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

  David Baldacci

  Trying, Labels, World

  David Baldacci (2011). “One Summer”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

  Rex Stout

  Believe, Effort, Important

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• One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Light, Darkness, Painting

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• The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.

  Joshua Jackson

  Tv Shows, Long, Actors

  "Joshua Jackson Talks about the FRINGE Series Finale, Peter’s Role in the Two-Hour Episode, Comparisons to DAWSON’S CREEK and FRINGE’s Legacy in TV History". Interview, collider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

  Wes Borland

  Taken, Singing, Done

  "Wes Borland: Why He Left Limp Bizkit". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 24, 2002.

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• The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

  Yogi Berra

  Hardest

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• It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

  Ayn Rand

  World, Want, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

  Bernie Sanders

  College, Should, Hardest

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I've done it for so many years, it's still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when you're on camera. You're filmed and you're being observed. It's a bit of a violation each time.

  Julie Delpy

  Years, Cameras, Done

  "Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.

  Jessica Mitford

  Jobs, Thinking, Circles

  "Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford".

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• The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Ignorance, Reality

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• I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

  Mollie King

  Morning, Heart, Feel Better

  "Mollie King from The Saturdays talks sex, being single and what makes someone sexy" by Stephanie Wood, www.mirror.co.uk. January 29, 2013.

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• You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

  Geri Jewell

  Funny, Eyebrows, Ears

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