Quotes About Challenge

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

He had received already a larger dose of life than he had bargained for, and he was scared.

One can't always be wise, can one, in a world like this?

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]

La había escuchado con asombro y con cierta inquietud. Por primera vez advertía los peligros que me acechaban. Me sentí como arrastrado tras ella hacia una absurda empresa de caballeros andantes como Sancho Panza tras Don Quijote, sólo que en busca de lo que ella llamaba diversión, en vez de hidalguía.

Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite. We become aware of ourselves, the more uncomfortable we are

It takes courage to throw off unproductive methods and approaches that the majority of scholars in your field have unquestioningly yoked themselves to for decades.

So how do they deal with it? They ignore it. They hope it'll go away Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and it won't go away.

Ideas without precedent," he was to write later: are generally looked on with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world are challenged. A hypothesis earnestly defended begets emotional reaction which may cloud the protagonist's view, but if such hypotheses outrage prevailing modes of thought the view of antagonists may also become fogged.

Archaeology is too much constrained by a rigid reference frame of what is possible and what is not, and tends to ignore, sidestep, or ridicule evidence that challenged that reference frame.

It's my destiny. Sometimes you're confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don't have a choice, because that's what you were born for

Life is a risk, my friend. ... We cannot avoid risk, my friend, for if we do, we achieve nothing.

Jei gyvenimas jums k? nors si?lo, k? darote? Atmetate? Užsimerkiate, nusisukate? Apsimetate, kad ??jote ne pro tas duris. Tai skirta ne man, kažkam kitam...

L'insegnamento è l'antagonismo tra insegnante e studente. E' quello che viene prodotto dalla perseveranza dell'uno e la resistenza dell'altro. E' una lunga e dura lotta contro una resistenza naturale

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

When the odds are impossible -- do the impossible.

What's the worst that can happen? I thought. I'll shit myself and choke on my own vomit in the back of a taxi or onstage. At least I'll die with dignity.

After things settle down, we can all take our turn sticking our heads through the hole in the Sisyphus mural.

challenge and difficulty mattered less to the great majority than accomplishment and gain

The quest, the fight—never the finding or the victory.

He hired people who were either barely qualified or lacked credentials, so they didn't have the courage to challenge him. He kept a few competent people to whom he channeled the bulk of the work he didn't understand. And his superiors had less technical knowledge than he did.

between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal