Quotes About Challenge

Chesterton wrote this of a "fence or gate erected across a road": The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

Humans are antifragile; exposure to discomfort and uncertainty -physical, emotional and intellectual- is necessary.

HARHARBLOODY HAR. Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it, society!

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.

It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design. But we keep on trying because we know that others have succeeded, and we are not willing to acknowledge defeat.

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Anything I have ever done that was ultimately worthwhile, initially scared me to death!

we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better. I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Veli?anstvenost bogatstva ljudskoga iskustva izgubila bi svoju vrednost i užitak kada ne bi postojale neke prepreke koje moramo presko?iti. Trenutak osvajanja planine ne bi bio ni upola toliko prekrasan kada ne bi bilo onih mra?nih dolina koje smo prebrodili.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." ? Helen Keller, The Open Door

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing

Life is either a great adventure or nothing at all.

Life is either a daring challenge or nothing

The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher at Woodbury Elementary. She challenged us to write creatively and praised my work, but most importantly, she treated writing like it was important.

Writing is the beast unto itself.