Quotes About Challenge

Encouraging refutation sharpens everyone's thinking and builds better collective wisdom

The aim of blue ocean strategy was straightforward: to allow any organization—large or small, new or incumbent—to step up to the challenge of creating blue oceans in an opportunity-maximizing, risk-minimizing way

Unless people believe that the strategic challenge is attainable, the change is not likely to succeed.

Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.

The arrow is off the string but does not fly straight to the target, nor does the target stand where it is. Calculation, which is miscalculation, sets in….

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

Each player tries his hardest to defeat the other, but in this use of competition it isn't the other person we are defeating; it is simply a matter of overcoming the obstacles he presents.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

A Christian Country God slumbers in a back alley With a gin bottle in His hand. Come on, God, get up and fight Like a man.

Adventure is a great thing," said Simple, "which should be in everybody's life. According to 'The Late Late Show' on TV, in the old days when Americans headed West in covered wagons, they was almost sure to run into adventure--at the very least a battle with the Red Skins. Nowadays, if you want to run into adventure, go to Alabama or Mississippi, where you can battle with the White Skins.

And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose slowly, slowly, Dimming, Hiding, The light of my dream. Rose until it touched the sky— The wall.

your asses at Scrabble. Who's up for an ass-kicking?" Lindsay

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Someone remind me why I didn't want to be an accountant when I grew up," Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. "Because accountants don't get to make things go boom.

Game on, asshole

Selling bullshit to a guy who peddled it for a living was no easy task. – Dylan

No, I'm talking about you, Nathan. What right did you have to storm into my life and mess everything up?

Don't push me, Sia." She shook her head. "I think a push is exactly what you need.

Renata snatched the last dagger from its resting spot on the kennel ledge and let it fly at him. Like the other before it, this one too was plucked from the air and now caught in the Breed warrior's nimble hands. He watched her, unblinking, and with a masculine heat that should have left her cold, but didn't. "Now what will we do for fun, Renata?

Please! … You can't just walk away and leave me in this shithole!?" Gideon paused next to Lucan. "hold up. Did he just insult my work?" Fangs bared, he swung around and stalked back in front of the gleaming bars. "Fuck you, calling this a shithole. This entire cell is a bloody technological work of art, you ignorant wanker.

Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.

Don't let fear keep you from pushing your personal boundaries. If you do, you'll miss out on some of the most pleasurable things in life.

This is needle-in-haystack shit. And the haystack is made of needles. On a needle planet.