I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

The greatest compliment a coach can get from another coach around the league is, 'Hey, your guys play hard. They're tough.'

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

If you want to be a good team, you have to play against the best teams. For me, personally, I want to have tough challenges.

You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you're not prepared for.

It's tough, but I have to remember that this is my passion and what I love, and that's how I keep the nerves from kicking in.

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that on 'Fading of the Cries.'

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.

Be your best you, and when things get tough always know that you can hand it all over to the universe and it will support you.

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

I have a tough personality but then have a very soft side to me. I'm kind of a tomboy, but I throw it together with girly pieces.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

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