Quotes About Challenge

She was treading on thin ice—with cleats.

There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

Knock him out, Paris!' 'Sure. Want me to spew diamonds from my ass while I'm at it?

So this is how it feels to be a man tempted—face to face—by the tempter. So

No," he said, now in a voice with a touch of eloquence, "authority from God is not afraid of challengers, makes no defense, and cares not one whit if it must be dethroned. "That

Korah approached

Rules were invented by elders so they could get to bed early. Men who speak endlessly on authority only prove they have none. And kings who make speeches about submission only betray twin fears in their hearts: they are not certain they are really true leaders, sent of God. And they live in mortal fear of a rebellion... No... authority from God is not afraid of challenges, makes no defense, and cares not one whit if it must be dethroned.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Trying to get a Phoenix build going is like playing Legend of Zelda, if it were written by a sadist, forcing her to adventure far and wide to find hidden keys scattered across the kingdom and given only measly clues from uncaring NPCs. But when you finally finish the level, you can't actually play the next level—you have to mail paper coupons to the manufacturer and wait weeks to get the activation codes.

Ward Cunningham in 2003. He said, 'technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

We need to focus on the riskiest changes," I continue. "The 80/20 rule likely applies here: Twenty percent of the changes pose eighty percent of the risk.

little fish learn to be big fish in little ponds.

Screwups like the san failure made us miss a Phoenix deliverable, and now we're paying for it.

we are all lifelong learners who must take risks in our daily work.

We're like the Bates Motel of changes," I say in disbelief. "Changes go in but never come out. Within a month, we'll have thousands of changes that we'll be carrying around, all competing to get implemented.

THE PROBLEM: SOMETHING IN YOUR ORGANIZATION MUST NEED IMPROVEMENT (OR YOU WOULDN'T BE READING THIS BOOK)

It's not a good sign when they're still attaching parts to the space shuttle at liftoff time.

As Dr. W. Edwards Deming is famously paraphrased, "Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival.

Bash is the disease you die with, but don't die of.

Doing this requires disruption and innovation, which puts us at odds with groups who are currently responsible for daily operations and the internal bureaucracies, and who will almost always win.

Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.