Hardest Quotes - Page 22

• It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

  Anthony Edwards

  Kids, Thinking, Expectations

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• Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Writing, Long, People

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• Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.

  Shane Warne

  Judging, Length, Tendulkar

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• One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

  Napoleon Hill

  Essentials, Tasks, Should

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.335, Courier Corporation

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• The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, People, World

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• Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Years, Npr, Long

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• At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Ghetto, Night, Dope

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• I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Small Business, Bigs

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• To choose always the hardest.

  Mother Teresa

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• I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

  Jordan Spieth

  Dad, Golf, College

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

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• The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

  Julian Schnabel

  New York, Artist, Thinking

  "New Again: Julian Schnabel". Interview with Carter Ratcliff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 5, 2016.

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• The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.

  Thomas Jones

  Mother, Coal Miners, Virginia

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

  Elaine Stritch

  Night, World, Truth Is

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it's too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Sitting

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• The hardest bits of my book to read were the easiest bits to write because they were the most immediate. Probably because I had never stopped thinking about them on some level. Those bits I was just channelling and those were the most exciting writing days. The bits I found harder were the bits that happen in between, you know, the rest of living. There were whole years, whole houses, that I just got rid of.

  Damian Barr

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

  Benjamin Stone

  Self, Goal, Empowering

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

  Jillian Bell

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "If Comedy Central’s ‘Idiotsitter’ is Half as Funny As Talking to Its Creators, It Could Be the Funniest Show on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

  Ann Goldstein

  Standards, Translate, Hardest Thing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Teaching, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident.

  T.C. Boyle

  Crazy, Moving, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning.

  T.C. Boyle

  Mean, Levels, Figures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Facts, Odd, Incomplete

  "For Name's Sake" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. January 20, 2016.

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• There is no question that the US market is the hardest to break into. I believe that the reason for this primarily has to do with the fact that the majority of the most powerful radio stations in the US are owned by Clear Channel. They are massive and have the ability to break artists worldwide. For the most part, they are dealing directly with the major labels in the US, with whom they have had long relationships. If you are an artist that is not being pushed by Clear Channel radio in the US, your chances of becoming a household name are slim.

  Wendy Starland

  Powerful, Believe, Artist

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

  Elle Fanning

  Ballet, Hardest Thing

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• I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing the hardest job with the late-term thing. I don't think that's easy on a person, especially under the kind of terrorism that doctors of his kind have seen over the past twenty years. He's a tough guy.

  John H Richardson

  Religious, Jobs, Past

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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