Quotes About Challenge

once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.

Your muscles tensed up, your blood pressure rose, and your heart rate increased. Someone looking closely at your eyes while you tackled this problem would have seen your pupils dilate.

One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure. The need for rapid switching is one of the reasons that Add-3 and mental multiplication are so difficult.

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.

Facing a choice, we gave up rationality rather than give up the enterprise.

theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.

the likelihood that something will go wrong in a big project is high.

It is easier to change directions in a crisis, but this was not a crisis.

A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially

effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around.

If you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around

We soon knew that we had overcome a serious case of theory-induced blindness, because the idea we had rejected now seemed not only false but absurd.

Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while performing the other.

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Many African Americans, Hispanics, and women read Scripture through Third World eyes, and this presents a deep challenge to First World readers, who all too often expect Scripture to endorse their comfortable, middle-class way of life.

Opposition is a crucial part of growth and argument paves the way to wisdom.

The only thing more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack is finding a needle in a needlestack.

My parents believe in the principle of 'sink or swim,' or 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ? or it kills you." From "The Education of Robert Nifkin

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

Reading something challenging feels like biting into a thick cake or having a rich coffee.

Nous autres les élèves, nous passons, vous, vous restez! Nous sommes libres et vous en avez pris pour perpète. Nous, les mauvais, nous n'allons nulle part mais au moins nous y allons! L'estrade ne sera pas l'enclos minable de notre vie!

Real challenges are far more invigorating than controlled leisure.