Quotes About Challenge

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

As soon as someone I don't respect tells me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don't know how to approach the problem, you're not going to get a solution.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

I'm still fighting to get the things I want and to do the projects I want to do. I think it will always be a fight or a challenge, but not being in my comfort zone keeps me very excited and happy.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

It's definitely fun to play something you're not, which is always a good time. Who doesn't want to get to act like a jerk or a douche, every now and then?

I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.