Quotes About Challenge

PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

Vejur was everything that Spock had ever dreamed of becoming. And yet Vejur was barren! It would never feel pain. Or joy. Or challenge. It was so completely and magnificently logical that its accumulation of knowledge was totally useless.

We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.

Nothin' bucks like a bull . . . rider.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

Remind me why I took this job,' Kai muttered. 'People pointed guns at you. Right?' 'Yeah. Something like that.' 'And you like books.' She glanced sidelong at him. He flashed a quick, genuine smile at her. 'Yeah. That would be it.

And Irene hadn't broken the letter of any ordinances – she hoped. She'd just jumped up and down on the spirit of them, then taken them down a dark alley and made some pointed suggestions at knife-point.

I think he and the Princess are engaged in an unofficial game of Who Can Show They're More Important by Arriving Last, not that either of them would admit it.

When the opponent completely controls the chessboard and things can't get worse for you, sometimes the answer is to make it worse for everyone . . .

And on the few occasions when it simply hadn't been invented and you had indeed introduced the alternate to a whole new concept, you could end up with problems like cold fusion.

Ay, there's the rub,

You're being awfully calm about this." "Having your hand catch fire puts things into perspective…I find that it distracts me.

She spat out snow. 'Vale, you're not carrying a gun, are you?' 'Absolutely not,' Vale answered. 'Do your worst, Winters.

Die Aufgabe einer Anführerin war ein Eimer voll Scheiße.

She'd been trying to improve her written Korean from appalling to merely bad.

She wasn't quite at the point of stepping out onto the motorway to play with the oncoming traffic, but it was close.

The unknown is scary. It's unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

Ed. Note: Unfortunately true (also happens in back seat of cars) (#HardToLiveWith)

Right when I was about to serve (which was traumatic enough, because I am even worse at volleyball than I am at Jenga),

While reaching up for manhood they tumble over a moral and ethical precipice and many can never scale their way back up.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

Thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne.

The wrastling for this world axeth a fal.

Boog et al, 2001, p.1117).