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Hard Way Quotes
Some lessons only stick once you have earned them.
These hard way quotes come from people describing what they only understood after a bad phase, an injury, or a slowed-down season of life taught them directly. See more reflection in our Experience quotes.
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- Dejected
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am neither dejected nor depressed because every one has a bad phase in one's life. I realized it the hard way because the momentum of my social life too slowed down.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no shortcuts, and you can't wing your way through real hard work. I learned the hard way by not taking auditions seriously when I first came out to L.A. and probably wasted a good seven years.
- Ignoring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am Dusty's son, but I learned the hard way I was never going to be 'The American Dream.' That was difficult for me, and I made some molehills into mountains.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020