Quotes About Challenge

the upper echelon of adventure sport athletes are grappling with the fundamental properties of the universe: gravity, velocity and sanity. They're toying with them, cheating death, refusing to accept there might be limits to what they can accomplish.

Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business.

Nothing's too gnarly.

The true challenge is how you continue doing it, after you've ridden the biggest wave, crossed the longest distance. You set up challenges that are more than what you ever did before. And by getting through it, you get the sensation you've completed something. And if it's dangerous, then other things that scare you, the experience will strengthen you for those situations.

It means you lose by not trying to play full out, by not trying to do the impossible—whatever that is for you.

They are deliberately cultivating these states to solve critical challenges and outperform their competition. It isn't just grit, or better habits, or longer hours that are separating the best from the rest. To hear these trail-blazers tell it, the insights they receive in those states are what make all the difference.

Risk heightens focus and flow follows focus. This means that the fight-or-flight response primes the body—chemically and psychologically—for the flow state. Athletes report moving through one to get to the other.

impossible is just the kind of challenge we've been waiting for. What the world needs most is Superman. What the world needs most is us.

It's why action and adventure athletes routinely risk life and limb for their sports and why spiritual ascetics willingly trade creature comforts for a chance to glimpse God.

Women can be a rough trip, but there's no better ride on earth.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won.

Though obesity surely is a public health problem, by the standards of history it's a good problem to have.

This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done.

Because in the twenty-first century, when we think by the seat of our pants, every correction can make things worse, and can send our democracy into a graveyard spiral.

We're all doing what we love. It's how we express ourselves - operating in a space where you don't know if something is possible or not.

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.