Quotes About Challenge

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.

What those anti-cookie-baking mothers wanted me to do was turn baseball into soccer.

And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make to forty-six-year-old Midwestern housewives: "Why are you telling me how to do my job?" I asked. "It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies.

But regardless of the direction you move, the central problem is still there: Why do it? What's the best reason for exploding the parameters of reality? With the possible exception of eating a dinosaur, I don't think there is one.

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

It's someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse.

My imagination has problems with plot mechanics.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

If there's any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Brandy says, Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes. Brandy says, I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.