Thinking Hard Quotes

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

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

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

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

I do understand the perspective of die-hard fans who complain that we don't play the same as the record, but at the same time I think fans are getting an amazing deal.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

I'm not the biggest fan of music videos. I don't think they're done well a lot of the time. I think it's hard to find something that grabs you and keeps you engaged for the whole time.

I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels; hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.