Quotes About Challenge

In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

Pressure brings the best out of people, or it can bring the worst out. It's just how you use it.

When I auditioned for '21 Jump Street,' it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I've ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.

That's always the actor's worst nightmare: that what they're working on is going to be the last thing they'll ever work on. No lie. So I was very excited to land 'Girlfriends' Guide' immediately.

The best alpinists are the ones with the worst memories.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.

My 21st birthday was probably the worst day of my life.

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.

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

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

I think that's what's thrilling about leadership - when you're holding onto literally the worst possible hand on the planet and you know you're still going to win. How are you still going to win? Because that's when the character of the company really comes out.

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.