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Quotes About Challenge

As a big man you may struggle to get much height when jumping for a ball - but by training with your defender team-mates you can develop a technique for making strong challenges in the air, making defenders uncomfortable and work on taking the ball down.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
I am looking for projects that challenge me, make me uncomfortable, and also projects that are in the hands of the right team. Then it's up to me to take a leap of faith.
~ Taapsee Pannu
I like a role that is challenging. That's what I look for and I'm certainly always looking to move further and maybe push myself into a place that might be temporarily uncomfortable so that I might learn something.
~ Ezra Miller
I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.
~ Mike Birbiglia
When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.
~ Joseph Altuzarra
A low budget is uncomfortable.
~ Lukas Haas
They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.
~ Mark Goddard
As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.
~ Simon Mainwaring
I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
~ Josh Tillman
I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.
~ Nicolas Cage
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies.
~ Josh Homme
I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.
~ Janina Gavankar
I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.
~ Megan Hilty
Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.
~ Josh Pais
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby.
~ Debbie Ford
I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.
~ Sebastian Thrun
You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.
~ Gerry Cooney
I understand it's great to read a great book, but it's better to live your life. It just helps me. It's uncomfortable at times, but you have to live outside the circle.
~ James McBride
DC is good all round. He pushes the pace, makes you think what you're doing, makes you uncomfortable.
~ Stipe Miocic
I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe.
~ Juliette Lewis
Everyone has an uncomfortable club in their bag.
~ Jason Day