Quotes About Challenge

A great ship asks deep water.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

To some people, the impossible is impossible.

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

I just love the pressure, truthfully, man.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.

There are many hard truths that we must face in life.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

You never know what you can do till you try.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.