Quotes About Challenge

I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same. It's like the defining story of who you are. -Gregory Crewdson, "Brief Encounters" http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

The process of leading a team that has never worked together before to accomplish something that has never been done before in a given amount of time with a limited amount of money

I was born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other.

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

it can be hard when you're pedalling furiously below water to stay afloat.

Hope is tricky, slippery; it's a door opening and then slamming in your face. The

I'll teach you to kick me...' You don't need to teach me--I already know how!

Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

Se con Dio non si lotta, Dio è morto.

Your soulmate can also be your downfall.

Das Ufer ist sicherer, aber ich liebe den Kampf mit den Wellen. (Emily Dickinson)

Il est des épreuves que l'on ne surmonte jamais vraiment .. Mais auxquelles on survit, malgré tout.

Tu ne vas pas me faire croire que tu sais allumer un feu de cheminée? s'amusa Billie. — Bien sûr que si ! répondis-je vexé. — Très bien, vas-y, homme, je te regarde avec mes yeux admiratifs de femme soumise.

No se dan cuenta de que el fútbol es un monstruo al que solo puedes vencer y enfrentarte si siempre te mantienes fiel a ti mismo, en cualquier circunstancia.»

There is not a single trainer, nor player, that can guarantee success at the start of a season,' Guardiola wrote a decade ago. 'Nor are there magic formulae. If there were, this game of football would be as easy as going to the "solutions shop" and buying them all.

At the end of his spell in Argentina he felt that he was better prepared than ever before; not totally, because Pep will never allow himself to be completely satisfied, but he felt ready enough to start putting everything he had learnt to the test.

Paradoja ser entrenado para resistir los ataques del mismo que te entrena.

Un arte de burbuja, sn contaminación, sin riesgo, sin acercarnos a los márgenes de la sociedad, es un arte desdentado

The only thing I'm certain of is that uncertainty is the hardest thing in life to endure.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it? To be dragged under?

Hidden in every limitation lies an opportunity. And for every obstacle you face, there is a simple and perfect solution, creatively. And your work is to find it. Where it gets tough is you need to fucking find it in five minutes.