Quotes About Challenge

For those who care deeply about Zen and its place in Japan and the world, the challenge is to help define Zen's role creatively lest the tradition get buried under the avalanche of criticism.

At minimum, there may be an implication that one of the great challenges for intelligent cultural beings may be to learn to cope with, and perhaps finally accept, a profound and deep sense of uncertainty regarding any larger cosmic sense of meaning and purpose—that such an uncertainty may have to be treated as a kind of empirical question to be possibly addressed over very long time periods as evidence is accumulated, but perhaps without ever obtaining a satisfactory answer.

Coping with the uncertainty of larger cosmic objective meaning may be one of the most profound challenges sufficiently aware beings have to face [...]. Indeed, human beings might be further along in this regard than may be commonly thought—much of the human population seems to able to cope without religion and without a larger sense of cosmic meaning and purpose.

To uncover the plot of your story, don't ask what should happen, but what should go wrong. To uncover the meaning of your story, don't ask what the theme is, but rather, what is discovered. Characters making choices to resolve tension—that's your plot.

You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next

To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

If you're interested in mastery," says University of Cambridge, England, neuropsychologist Barbara Sahakian, "you have to learn this lesson. To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

Mesmo se você falhar em meio a algo ambicioso, é muito difícil falhar por completo"

It sort of violates every known principle that we have," he admitted. "But every once in a while, you should test that you really have the right principles. You don't want to end up too rigid.

I don't know Stallman well. I know him well enough to know he is a hard man to like." (And that was in the preface of Stallman's own book!)

There is nothing more frustrating to a hacker than to see an extension to a system and not be able to keep hands-on.

Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doing this.

God pity the poor novelist.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one 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.

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it's just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds.

Now, don't take this the wrong way, but shouldn't you be dead?

The Deacon moved like a man so sure of himself he'd walk into the pits of Hell and have the balls to tell the Devil to turn down the heat. The thing about men like that, men so blinkered by their own holy importance, was that more often than not they underestimated their enemies.

To write about long-dead people is one thing. To write about one's own lifetime is different. And of course I must take care to avoid writing anything that gives offense to the emperor. Yes, I'm finding it difficult. But never fear, I shall finish it, and Philip will be impressed.

Sleep is a curse. A curse I must live with.

It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.