Hard Quotes

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them.

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.

Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.

It's kind of hard to believe that people love me.

It's pretty hard to offend me. I actually think people are a little too easily offended.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

This is the shape I'm in for the tournament. I feel or I felt extremely good before the match, and I did train very, very hard to get ready for the tournament.

Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Sometimes you hate your music, sometimes you don't. Sometimes I listen to the record and it's really hard for me, and other times I listen to it and I give myself a pat on the back.

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.