Hard worker always feel energetic.
Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.
After receiving USA citizenship, I have a hard time identifying as a citizen because the USA has an established history of mistreating me.
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
It's hard to imagine anyone accusing Lionel Shriver of being a timid writer.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.
You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.
The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
