I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.
The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.
With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so.
It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.
Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.
Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!
Often creativity comes from a very pragmatic kind of "well, what if we try this. How about this. " You set some parameters and then work through the variations. It's hard to see something as a concept. It literally comes out of the hands on experiment.
Cold start is a hard start.
I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.
Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is.
No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
Every game is an away game. Sometimes its hard to keep up with real life.
When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.
It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit. . . and keep moving forward.
What did you try hard at today?
And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.