Quotes About Challenge

Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

My friend was interning at the Miss India office and asked me to go for an audition. I just wanted to clear one basic round to show it to my friends. 'I'm in this mind space, and I can do this, losers.' I cleared the first round, and then I wanted to do more.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

My journey, my life, has not been easy. I have had to fight.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

Every time I go in, me and my time, we're 0-0, and we're looking to become 1-0.

I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.

I really enjoyed my time in Germany but didn't actually win anything.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

I like to be consistent so I like to challenge myself with consistency.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable than rock.

Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.

To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.