Quotes About Challenge

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Curious fact that those who never fail are also those who never truly succeed.

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

Indeed, upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would have been enough.

A perspectiva cósmica nos lembra que no espaço, onde não há ar, uma bandeira não tremula - um indício de que talvez agitar bandeiras e explorar o espaço não conbinam.

Perspektywa kosmiczna przypomina nam, ?e w przestrzeni pozaziemskiej, gdzie nie ma powietrza, flaga nie zaÅ'opocze Ã¢â'¬â€œ co wydaje siÄ™ wskazówkÄ…, ?e by? mo?e wymachiwanie flagami i eksploracja kosmosu nie idÄ… w parze.

Adventures suck when you're having them.

Don't listen to those who say, you are taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head ...

Nothin' sweeter than danger, boys, am I right?

You don't shower or shave for a month, until you smell like a sewer. Then you walk around for two weeks wearing a dress and a goalie mask with a dildo strapped to the front. That's what I did. And I will never be afraid of public humiliation again.

Mystery] delivered one of the many great aphorisms that that he used to turn defeat into triumph. Where there's a problem, there's an opportunity.

If I want true freedom, I need to accept that the path leading there is going to be one of discomfort and vulnerability.

If you're not being criticized, you're probably not doing anything exceptional.

Do you know how you get over it?" Rasputin looked at his interlocutor like a wrestler about to break a folding chair in half. "You don't shower or shave for a month, until you smell like a sewer. Then you walk around for two weeks wearing a dress and a goalie mask with a dildo strapped to the front. That's what I did. And I will never be afraid of public humiliation again." "You

share any mental or physical opposition that you are experiencing.

I'm a guy like this, Gino explained to Jeanie; I like anythin' against the odds. I don't like nothin' safe. I'm a guy like this too: I don't like gettin' caught. But mostly I'm a guy like this: I don't like gettin' laughed at.     He lived as he drove, as he gambled and as he loved: for keeps. Taking no man's laughter. And letting the small stakes go.

Fate whispered to the warrior, "You cannot withstand the coming storm." And the warrior whispered back, "I am the storm.

Credo quia impossibile.' I believe it because it is impossible.

It's a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down.

I think we opened a Pandora's box, took out a can of worms, and threw it at a hornet's nest." "You can say that again." But I didn't. I said, "We've been cut loose." I thought a moment, then added, "But I think we can go it alone." "I guess we have no choice. But I still want to know about West Point.

What do you do, Jack, when any move you make is the wrong move?" "You hope the other guy makes a bad move.

Fate whispered to the warrior, You cannot withstand the coming storm. And the warrior whispered back, I am the storm.

people firing rifles with live ammunition at me. Do you know what I did? I laughed. It was too ludicrous.

Before you go on any mission, you need to understand what you know, identify what you don't know, and try to guess what could go wrong. And finally, getting there is only half the fun; you need a clear path home.