Quotes About Challenge

Curiosity is a shit-starter. But that's okay. Sometimes we have to rumble with a story to find the truth.

Comfortable learning environments rarely lead to deep learning.

Joseph Campbell's wisdom: "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

If you're not in the arena with the rest of us, fighting and getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in your feedback.

You don't wander into the wilderness unprepared.

As someone who struggles watching my kids struggle, I can tell you—this is hard. I remind myself of the saying "Prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.

I was terrified by the idea that if education is going to be transformative, it's going to be uncomfortable and unpredictable.

If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in or open to your feedback

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and desperate measures are often fertilized with bullshit.

The same way you feel a muscle "burn" when it's being strengthened, the brain needs to feel some discomfort when it's learning. Your mind might hurt for a while—but that's a good thing.

Nadie puede desafiar al destino.

he was going to crash and burn, he might as well make it one hell of a conflagration.

Nothing ever stays easy for long.

But, if we're not careful, it is quite possible and tempting to be more in love with the idea of reconciliation than to actually engage in the actual work of reconciliation—the arduous, painful and messy marathon work of reconciliation. That's the pivotal question we must ask: Are we more in love with the idea of following Jesus than actually following Jesus—including to and through some difficult areas?

I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

My definition of a hero is a man who tests himself by a series of ordeals, each more difficult than the last; he's not competing in the world at all, he's competing only against himself.

Hitler, he predicted, 'would in the end challenge us because his black sorcery appealed to the worst in men; it supported their hates and ridiculed their tolerances; and it could not exist permanently in the world with a system whose reliance on reason and justice was fundamental'.146

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When

When preached purely, His Word exalts, frightens, shocks, and forces us to reassess our whole life.

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Nora had bewust een paar kinderen gewild, niet in de eerste plaats uit een emotioneel hunkeren naar het moederschap, maar misschien vooral omdat grootbrengen, opvoeden, een uitdaging inhielden, hoge eisen stelden aan inventiviteit, aan de gave tot voorbereiden, anticiperen, op het juiste ogenblik toepassen, die het destijds Muisje Bloemcaps mogelijk hadden gemaakt met superieur gemak alle lesmateriaal te beheersen.

Every level of our being calls for play and danger.