I cut off my dreadlocks, but I couldn’t face throwing them away. They were so hard to grow, man. There’s a lot of work goes into those things. Some people keep a diary or a photo album to remind them of their past lives – well, I’ve got hair. Who knows? One day, maybe my grandchildren might want to see it.
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Find someone who is having a hard time, or is ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her.
Popularity is a bubble. It’s a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
Right angles don’t attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I’m not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that’s it.
I’m so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say ‘Gee whiz, the vocal’s beautiful.’ I hear, ‘It needs to be better.’
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
I’ve had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.
Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I’ve learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
A hard man is good to find.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don’t understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
I stay hidden. I’m sort of hard to find.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
I ain’t going to sit here like, ‘My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.’ We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
It hasn’t always been easy. There’s a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.
‘Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.’ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.
I’ll probably be punished for hard living.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work.
We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
I wear hats and hoodies so it’s kind of hard to see me. I stay low-key. That’s the way I am.
Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I’ve pretty much adopted that.
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it’s not even a contact sport – it’s a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
You’re still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one’s birthplace.
In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.
Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don’t know that I’m an example. I hate to say, ‘Yes, look at me. I’m a good example of being Mormon.’ I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I’m a good example.
When you play in a great club like Real Madrid, it’s hard to stay here.
I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.
If you have a dream, it’s definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It’s poverty; it’s frustration.
‘Winter’s Bone’ really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you’ve got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I’ve already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.
I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over.
My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
