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Sometimes when your emotions are running high, it makes it harder to execute.
Sep 10, 2025
I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.
If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'
In high school, when you're a top player, there are ways of getting eligible, ways of getting out of going to class. It made going to the next level, which is college, that much harder.
I play harder when my family is watching.
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.
It got hard to juggle the funny on set and then even harder in post-production.
The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.
Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.
Life only gets harder, but you gotta get stronger.
Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.
In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
I think as a scout you have to pick. It is harder. You have to talk and explain that this is not just about standing one-dimensionally in front of a camera.
It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.
You're an idiot. Study harder.
I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.
The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!
You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.
By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.
I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.
My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.
It's harder to reveal sides of yourself that make you vulnerable but it's another muscle that can be developed and one that I think is worthwhile. That said, everyone finds their style. It's personal.
Writing is always harder than talking.
Conservatives are tougher. They fight harder, they fight for their own, and they're willing to win for themselves and they're willing to impose pain on the opposition. Liberals are much less willing to do that. They're much more - they would much rather give to everybody.
For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.
Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance Institute for my first film. I'm eternally grateful for their support. I think you need to be surrounded artistically and follow your intuition - always follow your intuition.
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.
It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.
I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.
Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Try a little harder to be a little better.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.
Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.
One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.
Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man.
I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.
Great teams work harder after a tough loss.
I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.
The harder I work the more I live.