A Quote by Walter Hagen

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

Walter Hagen

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Walter Hagen
American - Golfer
December 21, 1892 - October 6, 1969

When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, “Boy, that must have been really hard,” ... that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you’re never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it.

Pierre Omidyar

The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

John Calipari

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Michael Graves

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

Karl Ove Knausgard

I don't know - I think guys don't get as much credit as they deserve sometimes for how hard it is to put a great look together. It's so easy to just do a 'suit,' but to make it look a little different, it takes some effort.

Justin Hartley

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Peter Thiel

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Orrin Woodward

That's why the fears of playing or coaching, you want to do everything possible to make it. A lot of teams make it look real easy, but it is hard.

Jason Kidd

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

Eckhart Tolle

We can do this the easy way,' Oblivious snarled. 'Or the hard way.' 'What's the easy way?' 'You leave immediately.' 'And what's the hard way?' 'We make you leave.' Skulduggery's head tilted. 'What was the easy way again?

Derek Landy

When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.

John Krasinski

I'm easy to look at, but so hard to see.

Oprah Winfrey

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.