Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.
It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.
The hardest bits of my book to read were the easiest bits to write because they were the most immediate. Probably because I had never stopped thinking about them on some level. Those bits I was just channelling and those were the most exciting writing days. The bits I found harder were the bits that happen in between, you know, the rest of living. There were whole years, whole houses, that I just got rid of.
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Following Korzybski , I put things in probabilities, not absolutes. . . My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics , to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics , ideology , jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.