Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it.
Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.
I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.
We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network.
If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.
You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.
I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
Zeus Carver: No riddle is gonna stop this motherfucker? Simon Gruber: No code, no riddle, no fancy little countdown.
[Referring to The Sign of the Cross] Zeus: How do Catholics do their thing? John McClane: North, South, West, East.
Zeus: Oh, boy... am I glad you talked me out of jumping.
Ivan: [talking to Simon on the phone] He's here. Simon: Perhaps you could be a little more specific.
John McClane: I had no idea Canada could be this much fun.
John McClane: Think we should call a fire truck? Zeus: Aw, fuck 'em. Let 'em cook!
