Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond

Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.
Max von Sydow

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Edmund C. Stedman

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
J. G. Stedman

Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.
Henry Winkler

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
Derek Jacobi

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
Frank Dobson

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.
Michael Franti

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.
Tom Brady

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.
Tom Glazer

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
Alfred Sisley

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
John M. Smith