Tough Quotes - Page 24

• Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

  Joseph D Mansueto

  Loyal Customers, Competitors, Loyal

  "Everything I Know, I Learned from Warren Buffett". Interview with Christopher Caggiano, www.inc.com.

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• Tough times don't last but tough people do.
  No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.
  Men are born to succeed, not fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, People, Tough Times

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• Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Morning, Jobs, Wake Up

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• I'm a tough person. I wasn't afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they'd wash my car.

  Johnny Weir

  Kids, Car, Tough Person

  "Johnny Weir on covering Sochi Olympics: 'I'm not afraid of Russia'" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Problem, Made

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• The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.

  Unknown

  Issues, Goal, Intellectual

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• My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.

  Willie Morris

  Mother, Growing Up, Emotional

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• It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

  Stephen King

  Tough Life, Ifs

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Play, Knows

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• Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

  Barney Frank

  People, Speech, Cases

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• Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

  Donald Hall

  Hurt, Addiction, Important

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• I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think it should take foot-pounds of energy to produce that art, otherwise we would have more mediocre writers, and we don't have room for any more mediocrity in the world. There's already enough of it being visited on us night and day through the Internet, and through television, and through politics.

  Harlan Ellison

  Art, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the most important thing is to stay hopeful, to believe wonderful things are possible and do your best. Basically, to not give up when things get tough, and to learn to truly enjoy and appreciate life, with everything that it brings.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Giving Up, Believe, Thinking

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• There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Beautiful, Heart, Tough Times

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• Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.

  Raul Garcia

  Zero, Independence, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I have a bad hair day, I just think, Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go. Life is a bit like being on a roller coaster, which is, You get on and there's no stopping along the way. There are some days when you feel like this is pretty tough, and there are the days that are exhilarating, but you just keep on going.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Hair, Stopping

  Interview with Damon Beres, www.rd.com.

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• I want the Iraqis to understand that we are with them and that they have to make tough decisions, and we'll help them make those tough decisions for this country, for this democracy to survive. And they've made some tough decisions.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Decision, Democracy

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans.

  Barack Obama

  War, Headlines, Draws

  "Transcript of President Obama’s Commencement Address at West Point", www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2014.

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• When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Is, Easy, Difficult

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• When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Book, Eye

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• Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.

  Chuck Martin

  Numbers, Decision, Way

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• After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different

  Gurinder Chadha

  Beach, Years, Careers

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• Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

  Lillian Vernon

  Smart, Men, Tough Man

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• Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.

  Neal Boortz

  Race, Temptation, Pages

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