Quotes About Challenge

Neuroscientific studies suggest that the brain responds in much the same anxious way to facts that threaten our preconceptions as it does to wild animals that threaten our lives.

That is why 'learn from your mistakes' is wise advice that is painfully hard to take.

the scale of the trouble, the economist John Kay was pointing out the similarities between the crunch

it is not enough to tolerate dissent: sometimes you have to demand it. Galvin

It's so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you're wrong and you're

Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In

We'll start a whole new human race," Hoop quipped. "With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.

Writing doesn't get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

He showed me how...See, he says he's going up through Laos, then into Burma, and then some other country, I forget, and then India and Iran and Turkey, and then Greece, and the rest is easy. That's what he said. The rest is easy, he said.

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.

I keep trying to find a way to tell this story, to explain how things went bad

They carried their own lives. The pressures were enormous.

they carried like freight trains; they carried it on their backs and shoulders - and for all the ambiguities of Vietnam, all the mysteries and unknowns, there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

It was the burden of being alive.

After Caracas I no longer had a piano teacher, but I played for several hours every day and became pretty good; the first sonata by the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera was a favorite, for it looks and sounds much harder than it is and is so dissonant that only a trained listener is able to discern any mistakes.

twenty, thirty paces without stopping or turning — that was

Time to experiment. Necessity being the motherfucker of whatever is in its way.

Liam Rector's "Song Years": "Change is hard and hope is violent".

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Refusing to be intimidated, after all, didn't mean deliberately asking for trouble.

A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It's no fun—and no challenge—for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.

And those who stand in our way," he added softly, "will not watch at all.

If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something.

when the rules don't work, you break 'em.