Quotes About Challenge

Sometimes people with the growth mindset stretch themselves so far that they do the impossible.

Por qué es tan aterrador el esfuerzo? Hay dos razones. Una es que en la mentalidad fija se supone que los grandes genios no lo necesitan,

It's a lot more difficult for me than I thought it would be, but it's what I want to do, so that only makes me more determined. When they tell me I can't, it really gets me going.' Challenge and interest went hand in hand.

En general, la gente con mentalidad fija prefiere un éxito sin esfuerzo, ya que es la mejor manera de demostrar su talento.

Children with the growth mindset, on the other hand, couldn't tear themselves away from the hard problems. These were their favorites and these were the ones they wanted to take home. "Could you write down the name of these puzzles," one child asked, "so my mom can buy me some more when these ones run out?

People with the growth mindset hoped for a different kind of partner. They said their ideal mate was someone who would: See their faults and help them to work on them. Challenge them to become a better person

Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe.

I don't know how to get things started... It's like there's this great big wheel I've got to start rolling only I don't seem to have the muscles to get it going.

even reading information that goes against your point of view can make you all the more convinced you are right.

Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out.

Headaches you could generally shift with a couple of well-aimed Nurofen and some strong coffee. Heartaches were considerably more tricky to handle.

Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

It was like crawling on glass. No matter how firmly she resolved not to think such stupid things, she thought them.

During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: "there is no god west of Salina.

Few things in every-day experience are harder than just to keep pegging away at a task which seems doomed to failure, yet which we cannot in conscience abandon.

The same week another disaster overtook us... vicious pelting of hail...What to do? We hardly know, but, as the saying goes, we have the bear by the tail and it looks like a poor time to let go.

When I'm nervous, I get nasty. It's a problem.

They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

He is ten feet away from the wire and his eyes are on the prize and he lifts his arms up in a V—ten feet turns into two feet—and he unclips his helmet—two feet turns into ten inches—and

He didn't want to run the other way when he saw Miss Bennet, as vexing as she was. He wanted to best her, to leave her speechless; he wanted to hear her confess that she was wrong and he was right, about anything at all. And most worrisome of all, he wanted to kiss her senseless when she did so. Maybe even before. He must be cracked in the head.

The Fiddler's Roost Inn: the taproom and yard. Sometimes it was not in a lady's best interests to follow any dictates but those of her own heart. Because Lady Charlotte Ascot, daughter of the Earl of Ware, had discovered this at a young age—eight, to be precise, during a footrace against boys with considerably longer legs than she—when faced with a challenge to her courage at the age of twenty-one, she did

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.