Quotes About Challenge

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

Sometimes their immediate reaction is to want to run away because they realize inwardly that the transpositions their life will go through will be remarkable, change everything.

Behold, my friends, I am justice. And when at last we meet, you will not like it. And if irony awakens in you at the end, see me weep with these tears of jade, and answer with a smile. If you've the courage. Have you, my friends, the courage?

Never make a roadblock of yourself on trouble's road. No, make yourself a bridge instead, with stones slick as grease.

If we are to live, we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name.

I would say, most of the time, yes. Fear that our opinions might be challenged. Fear that our way of seeing things might be called ignorant, self-serving, or indeed evil. Fear for our persons. Fear for our future, our fate. Our moment of death. Fear of failing in all that we set out to achieve. Fear of being forgotten.

The bully's greatest terror,' Bugg said, 'comes when he meets someone bigger and meaner—

The curse of great minds. Arriving young to an idea, surviving the siege that invariably assails it, then, finally, standing guard on the ramparts long after the war's over, weapons dull in leaden hands

And out there, in that unending cavalcade of danger, I intend to enjoy myself.

Shall I loose the fleas on my head to rend your worthless flesh from your jellied bones?

No matter how bad things can appear to be, they can always get worse. Such is life.

Do not seek to find hope among your leaders. They are the repositories of poison. Their interest in you extends only so far as their ability to control you. From you, they seek duty and obedience, and they will ply you with the language of stirring faith. They seek followers, and woe to those who question, or voice challenge. 'Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.

Failure wasn't a pleasant notion. It stung. It burned like acid.

Out onto the battered road, then, the city falling away behind them. After a time, Karsa glanced back and bared his teeth at her. 'Listen. That is better, yes?' 'I hear only the wind.' 'Better than ten thousand tireless contrivances.

Balance has an eternal enemy, and its name is ambition.

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