Words matter. These are the best Hardest Quotes from famous people such as Ruth Reichl, Adam Neumann, Chris Gardner, Shana Alexander, Alison Mosshart, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To me, cooking is man’s natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
As a child who lived in a lot of places, one of the hardest things for me was to join a new community. It was hardest at the kibbutz, but that was also one of the most impressive communities.
The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.
Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.
In the studio, you can always stop, rewind and do it again, but on stage, you can never do that – it’s a different energy. It separates good bands from bad bands, being able to play, perform and really capture an audience. I think that’s the hardest part.
Anyone that coaches their son, you expect more out of your boy. I’m not talking about stats, but I expected him to be the hardest worker out there.
I look at a guy like Chris Jericho. This guy, man, he’s one of the hardest workers.
I think the hardest thing about my life is that I’ve met so many people all over the world who I love, but they’re not friends with each other.
I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‘What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?’ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act – everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.
For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.
You know that thing people say, ‘poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?’ I’m here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It’s nightmarish.
The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.
I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.
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.
London was the hardest Olympic Games, and before it, I was really just hoping to win a medal, even if it was not the gold medal. At the same time, I have my next target. I am not settling for three golds in a row. I now want to try for a fourth.
Longevity of focus, I think, is the hardest part. You know it’s to have a vision and then try to hold that vision and not have it change.
Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
Saturday afternoon is the hardest thing. I can go out and watch games, but I’m constantly on my phone looking at results: what score is this, what score is that. You have no real involvement, but you’re obsessed with it.
I’ve got the same mentality every time I step on the floor – play my hardest and just be locked in.
Italy was the hardest league to score goals in. Those guys just love defending.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
I’ll probably not be the best actor in Hollywood, and I am okay with that. But I will be the hardest working one, and I’ll be the one that people like to work with because I show up on time, and I don’t complain.
Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there’s so much that’s relatable in it.
Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm… where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That’s the juice. That’s where we hit the hardest.
Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it’s also the most satisfying thing.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.
I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.
I was introduced to spinning. It was so intense! It’s the hardest workout you’ve ever done, and afterwards you feel amazing.
To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.
The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn’t think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I’d known that I wouldn’t have tried to hook it.
I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I’m never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don’t have to face my own life.
Everyone I’ve worked with on any film will say I’m the hardest worker.
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, ‘Today is what I have.’
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I’m on the air, I’m very unscripted, and I’m very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.
Working at home is always best. Traveling is the hardest part of my job – I say I don’t get paid to wrestle, because that’s the fun part. I get paid to travel.
I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.
I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it’s the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you – because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.
The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there’s this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, ‘Well, you say I’m a pop star, so maybe that’s not true.’
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
I would say that the first ‘X-Men’ was the hardest. It took us a long time to get it going.
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.
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 enjoy comedic things. People don’t understand it’s the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.
The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That’s probably the hardest exercise I did.
The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
You can do as much training, the hardest training, and you might get there and not perform how you wanted, not because of lack of training but maybe the pressure you are putting on yourself. That’s a major part of being a resilient athlete – it’s not just physical, it’s mental.
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.
It’s one of the hardest things in life – choosing your own name.
Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.
