A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the ‘bad’ crony capitalists from the ‘good’ innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.
The hardest thing is in terms of the drawing, because, you know, I really have to work to keep my hand fluid, and I’ve done a lot of recovery, but it’s not the same as it once was.
I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It’s the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.
I want to protect my vision, and that’s the hardest thing.
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I’ve ever done – by far.
The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.
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.
I’m a bigger fan of my directing than in acting. Acting is just harder. You know, not harder, per se, because directing is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. But it’s harder to enjoy my work as an actor, you know.
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.
The hardest thing for me is restraint.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
People wanna give you a $5 contribution online, but they have a million other things to do. But getting them to just sit still for 45 seconds and go in there and make the donation is, like, the hardest thing in the world.
One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
If you’re a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
‘Billy on the Street’ is the hardest thing that I will ever do.
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
I never had confidence – never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.
The hardest thing to write is sitcom.
I always knew I had a voice and I’ve always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it’s the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it’s what I’m most talented at and what I love to do the most.
It’s hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It’s hard to switch gears.
Wrestling was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it’s just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They’d rather take their clothes off.
What I’ve learned how to do as I’ve gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I’ve ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.
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 have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn’t be the hardest thing that you do.
Stand-up don’t get no respect – it’s the hardest thing to do in show business. You don’t have no band and there’s no music.
Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in gymnastics.
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that… That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they’re making weird sounds.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it’s wonderful to tell your truth. And that’s what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They’d rather take their clothes off.
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There’s something very front and center about being young.
Getting the message out there to speak out is huge, and I think you can be the brightest person in the room, but people never know what’s going on really inside and the hardest thing is to speak out. You’ve got to speak out. I think sometimes you maybe hold it all in and it can get too much at times.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I’ve always been fairly funny.
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says ‘OK, I’ve done this before. I got it, let’s just keep doing what we’re doing.’
Most parents are able to be with their kid every day. Every day of their life, their parents have an opportunity to be with them, and we don’t have that luxury as professional athletes. That’s the hardest thing.
That’s sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.
There’s the hardest thing – when you cannot be as athletic or perform at a level you really want to. Your mind is telling you, but your body is not allowing you.
The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It’s just very hard to do. It’s hard to do in free agency; it’s hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.
The hardest thing about free agency is sometimes you want it right away but you have to wait and see see what happens.
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn’t wired that way. You’re accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
The hardest thing to do in wrestling is that every time you show up, there’s just a ring with three ropes, turnbuckles on each side, it’s extremely hard to do something to surprise and shock the fans.
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that’s, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it’s going to come.
Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.
What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that’s the hardest thing to do.
The hardest thing is that the people who don’t know anything about fighting, they label you. Once they get to know me, they’re like, ‘Ah, you’re not anything like I thought.’ That’s probably the hardest thing about being a fighter – everything else is easy.
A lot of people think the hardest thing about this game is making it into this league. As you get older and you accomplish most of your goals – all of your goals – you find out the hardest part of this game is walking away.
My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.
