Quotes with hard-headed

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  • Sebastian Faulks The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Herbert V. Prochnow The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
    Herbert V. Prochnow
    American banker and aphorism writer (1897 - 1998)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • John Irving The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bill Hader The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Ben Parr The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Jarrell The writer's real dishonesty is to give an easy paraphrase of the hard truth.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Colin Powell There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Pearl Bailey There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • John F. Kennedy There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Jordan There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Annie Dillard There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison There is no substitute for hard work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Josh Billings There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Beth Ditto There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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