Hard Quotes

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

I have come up the hard way.

Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

Sometimes it's hard to face your own...life.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

Simplicity is really hard.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.

Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

It's hard to know who to choose when you admire two people who are so different.

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.