And we find people trying to work hard at more jobs and other things to try to be - to try to hold on to what they had.
Ms. AL-SUWAIJ: There is always a hope, and we are trying to work so hard to achieve that.
You know, the people who I meet now that I find most inspiring who are successful I think are people who are not only willing to work very hard but are constantly trying to improve themselves and to think in new ways, and not just accept the conventional wisdom.
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These are the differences we are trying to make - listening to people, doing the hard and necessary work of changing our country for the better.
Many pop artists spend decades of hard work trying to pin down a style that envelopes their voices, and Steve Jobs made it look easy and cool, tapping into a cache most artists and entrepreneurs could only dream of achieving.
And the Chinese are hard at work trying to build world-class universities.
But, in examining all the proposals one cannot help but think that perhaps Bloomberg has identified an emerging culture where people are trying too hard to make city governments work better, instead of making cities themselves better places to work.
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Put it another way, it's hard work these days trying to sell things to people they don't strictly need - as any "consumer facing" company will unhappily confirm.
Trying to work out the optimal balance of sentencing and policing is hard.
If he is convinced of an idea, no amount of difficulties and hard work will prevent him from trying to achieve it.
We're trying to let it all sink in, but the hard work has started again already to get focused for Antigua and make it a clean sweep.
The goal is to hit all of them, and I've been to about 10 agencies, and really trying to shine a bright light on all of the hard work done by our nation's employees.
Hard as it is, we really ought to be trying to work out which of these people will do in response to a change in taxes.
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This observed hard work matters to such an extent that if you are trying to recruit the next potential chief executive officer of your company and are considering two A students, take the slightly less brainy one.
That type of self-interest screwing customers, homeowners, and investors is applauded as hard work and smart thinking while the poor guy working 9-5 and trying to earn enough to support a wife and kids who finds himself out on the street although he participated in none of this.
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The other thing, though, that I would say was that I still sometimes have to really work hard to grasp the magnitude and the scope of what it is that we are doing in trying to help re-establish, in a really quite a short period of time, a country's entire military structure.
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