Quotes About Challenge

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

If, adhering closely to the absolute, we try to avoid all difficulties by a stroke of the pen, and insist with logical strictness that in every case the extreme must be the object, and the utmost effort must be exerted in that direction, such a stroke of the pen would be a mere paper law, not by any means adapted to the real world.

it is in how you meet the conditions of life that the quality of life inheres, not in the events or circumstances themselves.

About this unpleasant situation Boltzmann wrote: "I hate this continuous secret battle; I know much better how to integrate than how to intrigue.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour.

Their failure is just another expression of their helplessness

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

The career of a mathematician begins when he realizes that a subject he is studying is not presented in the right way: it starts with an act of rebellion…").

When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There's a drawing on it. A drawing of the "light-filled box" in Einstein's thought experiment. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

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Business is tough you need tough guys.

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Now that the day is repeating, I have no idea what to do with myself," Lyle says. "I can't finish the book I've been working on for the past five months. Every time I go to sleep, the words I write disappear. It's frustrating as hell. The only books I'll ever write are the ones that are already finished. Anything I do from now on won't last.