You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own.
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.
It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.
Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
I think it's getting tougher and tougher, all the big teams are getting stronger and there's more of them.
What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.
It was always the goal to score as many goals as I can. But every year is harder and harder.
The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.
Everybody's calling, they want to backflip off this and into that. Once you do that a couple of times, it's like, 'OK, what do you got now?' Well, now I gotta do two flips into that, then two and a half. When they get used to that, what do you do?
I just want better competition the more I step up.
I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.
My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.
Everything is so much more stacked than it was even five or 10 years ago. There are so many more good players, so many solid players. The level doesn't really drop from around 100-500. It's really tough to make it, but I just have to work as hard as possible.
