Quotes About Challenge

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

Time unbounded is hard to handle.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

It's nice to be able to challenge myself by playing real people. But at the same time it utilizes a different part of the brain to just invent new things.

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

Know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

He had a dream and it shot him.

The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.