"Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date." ― Ann Richards Topic(s): Work More From Ann Richards "I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong." "I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you." "We’re living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don’t work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality." More In Work "You’re basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won’t work. That’s why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They’re all religious problems."― Jack Kevorkian "Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."― J. K. Rowling "I had to ride a horse once. In ‘King Arthur.’ I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work."― Clive Owen