Quotes About Challenge

This has never been a problem before," people say. Until one day it is.

our frustration growing.

because of the previous damage, it couldn't safely be done.

But finding a good idea is apparently not all that hard. Finding an entrepreneur who can execute a good idea is a different matter entirely. One needs a person who can take an idea from proposal to reality, work the long hours, build a team, handle the pressures and setbacks, manage technical and people problems alike, and stick with the effort for years on end without getting distracted or going insane. Such people are rare and extremely hard to spot.

The fire had been difficult, but not to a degree that had ever made him flee before.

Medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity.

And this gap complicates everything we do.

science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

alone. His condition deteriorated rapidly.

Medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity—and a test of whether such complexity can, in fact, be humanly mastered.

I had seen the procedure done. Now it was my turn to try.

In many the entry point is never found at all.)

If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?

once trouble occurred everything unfolded almost automatically:

It is a reality of medicine that choosing to not do something—to not order a test, to not give an antibiotic, to not take a patient to the operating room—is far harder than choosing to do it.

When to shift from pushing against limits to making the best of them is not often readily apparent. But it is clear that there are times when the cost of pushing exceeds its value.

You count on experience and judgment. And it is hard not to be troubled by this.

The screw wasn't budging.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

As soon as a challenge was overcome, it creased to be a challenge, becoming the expected and ordinary rather than something I had achieved with difficulty, and could, therefore, be justly proud of. I could not own my own triumphs, nor give myself credit for them.

In the cause of silence, each of us draws the face of their own fear - fear of contempt, of censure, or some judgement, or recognition, of challenge, of annihilation. But most of all, I think, we fear the visibility without which we cannot truly live

The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out.

Don't make waves is good advice from a leaky boat.

And we must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply, and so many of our old ideas disparage.