Quotes About Challenge

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

When you got a demand issue it's hard to imagine the stock market at an all-time high.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.