Steve Jobs

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

American Businessman

Bill Gates

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

H. L. Mencken

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

American Writer

Norman Schwarzkopf

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

American General

George Carlin

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

American Comedian

Henry Ward Beecher

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

American Clergyman

Albert Schweitzer

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

German Theologian

Mark Lanegan

It's hard not to respect Kobe Bryant's game: He's one of the all-time greats.

American Musician

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

American Boxer

P. J. O'Rourke

Refers to the physical feel of surfaces. Imagine touching objects to get an idea.

Texture Reference

Suggests an object's strength and ability to resist wear or damage.

Durability Implication

Used to emphasize the great effort and energy put into an action.

Effort Intensity

Implies ongoing, sustained effort over a period of time.

Persistence Suggestion

Indicates that the task requires a lot of skill, intelligence, or effort.

Difficulty Level

Communicates that an activity may push someone to their limits.

Intensity of Challenge

Describes someone's mental strength and resilience facing challenges.

Emotional Strength

Often refers to a person with strong willpower and determination.

Character Determination

Shows an extremely strong or intense reaction to something.

Exaggerated Reaction

Conveys a very strong emotional response, whether laughter or sadness.

Emotional Intensity

Refers to beverages with a high level of alcohol, stronger than beer or wine.

Alcohol Strength

Associated with adult gatherings or settings where alcohol is served.

Adult-Only Context

 And many of our ideas have been formed, not to meet the circumstances of this century, but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries. But our minds are still hypnotized by them, and we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them. Now, doing this is easier said than done. It's very hard to know, by the way, what it is you take for granted.

Bring on the learning...

 What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager serve to remind us of just how hard it is for our relatively finite minds

The Infinite Hotel...

 though it isn't the exclusive cause of any of them. Posture can even influence your emotional state and your sensitivity to pain. So there are a lot of reasons to aim for good posture. But it's getting harder these days. Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture,

The benefits of good...

 Sugar also causes dopamine to be released, though not as violently as drugs. And sugar is rare among dopamine-inducing foods. Broccoli, for example, has no effect, which probably explains why it's so hard to get kids to eat their veggies. Speaking of healthy foods,

How sugar affects the...

 have stymied every idea for perpetual motion and the dreams of perfectly efficient energy generation they imply. Yet it's hard to conclusively say we'll never discover a perpetual motion machine because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe.

Why don't perpetual...

 and speak to the prisoners under the following you may only make one statement, and you cannot tell them any new information. What can you say to help free the prisoners without incurring the dictator's wrath? After thinking long and hard,

Can you solve the...

 Some people say that the second year is harder than the first. That's kind of where I'm beginning to feel more the physicality of this loss more deeply. I don't even talk about my mom really with my close friends.

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 The difficulty is it can be challenging for people with narcissistic personality disorder to keep working at self-betterment. For a narcissist, self-reflection is hard from an unflattering angle.

The psychology of...

 There's one noise we've hardly heard. It rarely happens when the cats are out with each other. Hello. To understand what's going on Do you want some dinner?

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 your diabetes not cure you so your doctors will work very very hard to try to prevent complications that might ruin the quality of your life or kill you so

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