Quotes About Challenge

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

Learn from them, because I will always be there, one step ahead of you, programming more difficult and advanced patterns into the computer so that your next battle is more difficult, so that you are pushed

Once you get a storm started, it's mighty hard to slow it back down again.

I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

Remember, boy. From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From

We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.

The enemy's gate was down.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

How many times are you two going to have to save me from myself before this whole drama runs its course?" asked Peter. "I think…six times," said Father. "No, eight," said Mother. "You two think you're so cute," said Peter. "Mm-hm." "Yep.

Thus I began to realize that, as it is, Ender's Game disturbs some people because it challenges their assumptions about reality. In fact, the novel's very clarity may make it more challenging, simply because the story's vision of the world is so relentlessly plain. It was important to her, and to others, to believe that children don't actually think or speak the way the children in Ender's Game think and speak.

Everything was a test. Or a lesson. Or a punishment from which he was supposed to learn a lesson, on which he would be tested later, and punished if he hadn't learned it.

The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. There is no combat without movement, Ender said.

There is no teacher but the enemy.

There are too many players in this game," said Ram Odin.

Mother's ironic vision of life as one prank after another, in the midst of which you did what was needed.

if he maintained that speed and went outside, the ship would appear to him as if it wasn't moving at all since he would be moving at the same velocity. But going outside at a high velocity was risky. He'd expose himself to gamma radiation and the threat of micrometeoroids. Getting hit by a tiny rock particle would likely be fatal. Victor couldn't take that risk. Not with so much at stake. It would

The key. The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hands on every key.

Saber qué hacer con un batallón es fácil —dijo Ender—. Conseguir que lo hagan es lo difícil. ¿Por

The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.

It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.

Poor kid. Nobody's treatin' him fair." Ender gently pushed Bean back against the wall. "I'll tell you how to get a toon. Prove to me you know what you're doing as a soldier. Prove to me you know how to use other soldiers. And then prove to me that somebody's willing to follow you into battle. Then you'll get your toon. But not bloody well until.

Knocking him down was the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. - Ender

I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

Every woman is a rebel.