Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Chiang

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

Travis Fimmel

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

Tracy Letts

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

Thomas Mars

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.

Thomas Jane

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Tim Tebow

It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.

We're just trying to go out there and have fun. We're playing hard and staying relaxed.

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

What we did last year was tough, it is hard to get to the top. But what is harder is trying to stay there and that is what we are going through.

Brian Wilson

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Bret Michaels

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

Brandi Chastain

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

Boris Johnson

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Bobby Knight

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Bob Dylan

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Billy Campbell

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Bojana Novakovic

I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

Brigham Young

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

Brian Regan

I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.

Brian Setzer

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.

Brian Tracy

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Brian Tracy

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

Brian Tracy

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

Jamie Foxx

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

Kim Gordon

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Kristen Schaal

It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.

Kristen Johnston

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

Lance Gross

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

Kurt Busch

What we do is just race hard on the track every week. That's the way I'd like it to be documented, and if we watch the tape, we'll see that the No. 48 swerved into us first and I know that, before even watching the tape.

Kate Reardon

I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.

Kate Bush

My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

Gary Speed

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.