Top 1200 Thinking Hard Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.

I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time, but I don't wake up thinking about one individual player move.

Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

Mum and dad have worked so hard and shown me that if you work hard you will reap the benefits.

When I met Harrison Ford I just kept thinking: "At what point do I break out my Star Wars memorabilia? When is it OK to have him sign something? Will he? And will I look like a total idiot!" The only time I ever got anything from another actor to sign was for my brother or my kids because both of my brothers are die-hard Star Wars fans.

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

I gotta answer the hard questions in a hard-type manner. Anything else would be uncivilized.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, 'Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.'

I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.

Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

I try to practice hard every week, so when I get a chance to go in the game I play hard.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

Possibly. I know on set, they were talking about ‘oh, a sequel’ or something. That would be way down the road, because this one we just finished. So, [I’m] not even thinking about that again. But they could be thinking about it. That would be fun.

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

When I first started writing cookbooks, I remember thinking to myself, what makes me think I can write a cookbook? There are these great chefs who are really trained. And, as I started, I realized, actually, what is my lack is actually exactly right, because I can connect with - cooking's hard for me. I never worked on... And that's why my recipes are really simple, because I want to be able to do them.

When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

I think zombies are kind of cute.” “Seriously?” “I may be thinking about bunnies. Which one has the fluffy little tail, zombies or bunnies?” “Bunnies.” “Then it’s bunnies I’m thinking of.

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you’re making a choice, ask yourself if it’s going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

If you train hard and work hard eventually you will gain results, and that is the real spirit of life.

Ive worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.

It's always hard being an alternate. Knowing you might not be put in, but you have to work just as hard. It's stressful.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.

You don't mess with Pablo Zabaleta. He is not just looking hard, he is hard.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune.

Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

Conte is a manager who works very hard and likes people to work hard for him as well.

The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.

I always felt that if I did the right thing, that if I trained hard and worked hard, I'd be rewarded somehow.

I just want to say that we are going to hit ISIS hard, and I mean really hard, but I do think this.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

We shouldn't be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is like working towards national interest.

It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

The E.U. has narrowed our horizons. It has narrowed everyone's horizons in Whitehall so they're not thinking about the big things in the world. They're not thinking about the forces changing it or what Britain can really do to contribute to them.

Kobe taught people how to work hard, he taught you how to work hard. He gave you the blueprint of what you should do to be a successful basketball player, and work hard.

The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

I do a lot of different projects. In Africa, sometimes it's hard. When you're not there, it's hard for people to do the things the way that you want.