Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.
The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.
I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.
I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it.
You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.
I think it's a legend that Lars von Trier is such a tough person to work with. I really didn't experience any of that. Of course, he's difficult in the sense that what he asks for is difficult. For my part in Antichrist, I suffered a bit. But it was the part - it wasn't him. He wasn't cruel. On the contrary, he was very kind. You know what you're up for when you read the pitch.
When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.
If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.
Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.
Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.
Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.
I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.
Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
