Quotes About Challenge

failure is only failure if it happens in the last chapter. Otherwise, it's a plot twist.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

Solo un disoccupato che ha appena pagato l'affitto riuscirebbe a leggere "Guerra e pace" senza saltare le descrizioni dei paesaggi.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

The hardest part about doing Spaceballs (1987) was not laughing when they said "action".

What could possibly go wrong?

Dethroning Jesus seeks to determine whether we have the right to get to that kind of a discussion or whether Lessing's ditch is so great that we should simply throw up our hands and do the best we can to muddle through.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

The harder I push, the further I fall.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

That's the part of it I [Sam Spade] always liked. He [Flitcraft] adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to their not falling.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Officer knight is tough but not smart! And greg the dog is smart but his body is his weakness! Well what if they work together? Oh that might be a problem!

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time. This difference makes finding latitude child's play, and turns the determination of longitude, especially at sea, into an adult dilemma—one that stumped the wisest minds of the world for the better part of human history.

The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.