Words matter. These are the best The Hardest Thing Quotes from famous people such as Marina Abramovic, Michael Franti, Anna Faris, Max Weinberg, Stephen Gostkowski, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.
The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It’s hard to get the first job, but it’s so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.
There’s a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it’s in your pocket. It’s the feeling behind the rhythm… to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.
The hardest thing about kicking a kick at the end of the game or end of the half is not letting your excitement get the best of you.
The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.
I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It’s the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You’ve explored so little. I’m lucky: My parents let me explore.
I’ve been fortunate enough to always have plenty of work, offers to go out and play shows. The hardest thing I have to do is pick out which one I want. For some reason, there’s a great demand out there, whether I’ve got a new record out or not.
I’m a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That’s when I get into trouble.
The hardest thing I have done is given up power.
When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino – they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
I’m convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they’ve just said. That’s all there is to improv, but it’s the hardest thing to do.
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.
That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of the books were like, ‘Oh, he’s turning 16’ – that was the hardest thing: to play younger and show that.
The hardest thing in the world is to know as much about any team as a good, solid fan in that area.
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don’t have no down time.
It’s a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
But helping to raise a football club from the ashes, and running it as director of football operations, is the hardest thing I’ve ever done by a million miles.
Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs there is. It’s one of the greatest things, too, but it’s also probably the hardest thing anybody ever does.
The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it’s also the least talked about.
Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song – not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.
The ALL IN Challenge might be the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.
I love doing emotional scenes. As I’ve had a perfect life, I don’t really have much to pull from. But it’s really fun and not that challenging. It’s almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That’s a really hard thing.
People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe’s record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.
My mother’s death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing my dad ever went through.
The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn’t like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one’s life seem disorganized.
I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
I’ve been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
Making movies is really hard. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.
The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there’s skill involved, and they’re all handmade.
The hardest thing about this industry is not working.
I think I was always so resistant to coloring my hair because, you know, when my dad was still alive, it’s so easy for a second- or third-generation wrestler to just copy their predecessor. The hardest thing you can do is try and carve out your own legacy.
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you’re playing a character who changes within the movie, you’ve got to do that, but you’ve got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that’s really, really tough.
The truth is, I’ve been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I’m on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
I’ve let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That’s what I’m working on now.
I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There’s an insanity that goes with writing – a mad scientist thing that you have to go through – and sacrificing a kid’s upbringing to do that is not an option.
True atonement isn’t the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.
The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they’re gone for good.
The hardest thing about being a woman is different for everyone. For me, it’s the mirage of ‘having it all’ somewhere off in the distance. I think in many ways you do have to choose.
The hardest thing is that you can’t trust people now. You just can’t.
I mean, the hardest thing to do, I think, in the NBA, is to put the ball in the hole.
When we were making ‘Arrested Development,’ it was the hardest thing I’d ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren’t getting feedback. The job wasn’t paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.
The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the locker room. I mean, that is not fun, and that takes an awful lot of guts. And I never enjoyed that.
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
The hardest thing for young footballers is that you start earning money and you can start copying other players.
For many people, the hardest thing about job-seeking is figuring out where to start. All through college, I heard my friends asking themselves, ‘What do I want to do with my life?’ And guess what? After college, and after that first job, people still ask the same question.
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over ‘Perestroika.’ It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to ‘Lincoln.’
The hardest thing is when you’re in public, and you need to go to the toilet, and someone asks for a photo. And their phone is either flat, dead, or they’ve turned it off completely. You’re trying to rush to the toilet, and they want your autograph – and I hate saying no, I feel so bad.
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, ‘Well it’s obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.’
The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
It’s all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that’s the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.
