Quotes About Challenge

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.

The enemy is Resistance.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Resistance has no conscience.

The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind.

The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.

Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself.

The hero's journey can take place on a battlefield or in a cubicle. We can live it out amid public clamor or in the soundless vault between our ears. The demons we are dueling are always the same. They are our own fears of becoming who we are. No one who has ever lived—or ever will—has a journey like ours. And yet our journey is universal. It is every woman's and every man's.

The payoff for a life of adversity is freedom.

Listen to me, young Hardy. A day will come for you when play becomes torment. When you are drowning, not in water but on dry land. In that hour remember me. I will preserve you.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.

Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there's tremendous love there too. If you didn't love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn't feel anything. The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference.