The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.
Any little touch a defender can make on me when I’m in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it’s harder to fight that off.
It’s definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It’s going to be a lot of work, and you can’t make light of that.
There is no royal road; you’ve got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
I’ve always understood that, as a woman and as a person of color, I would always have to work harder; I would have to have thicker skin. I would have to be more mindful of my reactions, the way I spoke to people.
Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I’m a better mother when I’m engaged in something outside of the house.
I don’t think there’s so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it’s even harder to make documentaries.
Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It’s harder and harder to find what the truth is.
It’s very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that’s so much harder.
I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
There’s competition in every field, and that’s healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
Covid makes the job harder. But it is what it is and we have to get on with it.
The public digs needled me to rebel. They forced me to work harder.
I think it’s a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
Breakups just hit you harder when you’re younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn’t like me back!
Now the playbook is we build AI tools to go find these fake accounts, find coordinated networks of inauthentic activity, and take them down; we make it much harder for anyone to advertise in ways that they shouldn’t be.
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians – although it’s harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
I definitely think that females have a harder time. It’s a lot harder to be a girl because you’re always in your head. I’ve heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.
Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.
It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that’s 10 times harder.
I’ve always felt like a little bit of an underdog at each level – never the tallest or strongest or even fastest. But one thing I’ve always tried to do was to play harder than anyone on the court.
I love to do something that’s challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don’t finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can’t say, ‘Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.’ You think you can, but you can’t.
The only way physical comedy works is if you don’t see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I’ve walked away with some bumps and bruises.
It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.
I’m a big believer in luck – the harder you work, the luckier you become.
Dancing is like ditchdigging, it’s so strenuous. A laborer doesn’t work any harder.
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
It took me years to realize that ‘normal’ is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.
Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.
Indeed, the actor’s lot is a much harder one than that of the director’s, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You’ve just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.
There’s danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, ‘My life is a little harder than it used to be.’ At a certain place you’ve got to say to the people, ‘Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.’
It’s actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they’re not around. Too much free time!
There’s a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
For me, writing for kids is harder because they’re a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid’s not going to do that. They will drop the book.
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
The reality is that it’s harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you’re not recruiting them for a children’s hospital.
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.
People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That’s how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.
I’m not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.
We had to go to bed by 8 P.M. My siblings and I would often play cards under the bed-sheets. But we would get caught and then were made to practise harder. My father would say, ‘You need to work even more if you aren’t tired enough to go to sleep.’
I’ll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, ‘Don’t be a tape player hater,’ in ‘Country Man,’ I don’t think I ever laughed harder. We didn’t know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line.
Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I’m really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It’s always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
People were being so mean as a result of my ability – a gift, really. So I think that’s what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through what I went through… to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
When I signed my first contract with Sao Paulo I still wasn’t sure that I was going to have a successful career. Even after you turn professional the competition is so intense, and as I was a bit older than some of the other players, I thought that it would be harder for me.
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.
It’s a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it’s much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don’t; they just know that means they’ve got to practise harder, and they’ve got to do something else differently.
It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don’t feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
As a young actor, I played a lot of ‘exotic’ parts and was stuck with the tag ‘sultry.’ I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.
I’m working harder now than ever before. I couldn’t turn down the BBC job because I’ve never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
