#things

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ↗

— Confucius

#bad #difficult #easy #get #good

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#doing #i #later #our #paper

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#else #happen #irony #somebody #stories

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#bigger #everything #having #hobby #i

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #brothers #did #enormous #guys

I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#did #friends #had #i #normal

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #kind #life #my life #spontaneous

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#feel #going #i #i do #i feel

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#along #broadway #capital #directing #film

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#cynicism #derive #dismal #fairly #hard