Quotes About Challenge

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.

Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got, that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

I love an opposition that has convictions.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and [if] there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.