Quotes About Challenge

It's quite interesting to note that Townes's colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university's physics department, told Townes his maser idea would never work and urged him to abandon the project.

I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead

many now saw as the play's most challenging role. But before the 1970s there was a brief moment when

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him. The unreasonable man expects the world to adapt itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

Because I don't care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here's the truth: life is catastrophe. The basic fact of existence—of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do—is catastrophe.

The months subsequent were an endless dreary battle of paperwork, full of stalemates, fought in trenches.

Il mondo non mi verrà incontro, perciò devo andargli incontro io.

Cuanto más agitas los árboles más hojas caen de ellos.

unfortunately it's necessary," he said, sniffling and wiping his nose on his sleeve. His course load was

Yet (moment by painful moment, breath by painful breath) one got through things.

no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. because, here's the truth: life is catastrophe

the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform.

Establish a clear purpose; challenge the team to work out details; traverse conventional departmental boundaries; set large short-term and long-term targets; create tangible success to generate accelerated growth and momentum.

A severe attack of rheumatoid arthritis sent him to the hospital for six weeks at the end of 1918. Cautioned that he might be required to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his days, he said, "All right! I can work that way, too.

If you spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, anything would seem easy!

A mysterious process unfolds as the president and the flag become rallying points for all Americans. At such moments, if the president is able to meet the challenge, he is able to give shape, to organize, to create and recreate the nation.

I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.' 'Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is

a family wanting no more than to live without challenge or drama could easily find a quiet street, and peace, provided they were fortunate enough to live in a comparatively sheltered and favoured geographical area, and provided they were able to make the mental adjustment to relegate war - and its consequences - into something that happened elsewhere and did not affect them; or something that had happened to them, but between such and such dates, and then taken itself off.