It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
Beauty makes life easier. People want to do things for you. They want to marry you and pay for everything.
I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
It's much easier to work with an unknown.
When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.
I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn't exist.
I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
You always have to come from the element of 'What do you have in common?' first. It makes it easier to work through your differences.
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.
There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work because producers want bums on seats, and they're going to get bums on seats if they get a name, if you have had that series on telly.
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.
It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.
Cut your arms and legs off, and you're left with a trunk, which you need to be as strong as possible. It's easier to push over someone who is tall and skinny than someone short and stocky. That's why we work everything from the calves to the neck.
It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.
Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of slippers than one of the satin corsets the Bunnies used to wear.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.
Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.