Quotes About Challenge

Some designers believe the more research you do, the better the solution," said Weaver. "I personally believe in common sense and intuition. Jonathan's strength was that he quickly grasped the essentials of a challenge, producing intuitive solutions, which were elegant, viable and had a sense of detail rare in one so young.

if there's not some sort of friction in a move forward, your step is not as consequential as you'd like to believe it is

What happened? They had it! They had it in the palm of their hands! They grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory!

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Easy dosen't matter to Lyudmila. Easy has never mattered. Possible is what matters.

Boards don't hit back.

Eat. This time you're eating paper. The next time it's going to be glass.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

there was something essential missing that prevented him from feeling content with his life, something he once had when he was on the UCLA track team. It was a sense of utterly consuming physical challenge, of pushing his limitations to the point of agony. The pain always ebbed, though, and left an afterglow of exhilaration that charged him until the next challenge, when he would give just a little bit more.

Fine." I turned and pinned him with the coldest, cruelest, most accusatory glare I could muster. "Do I still own a glass I can drink from instead?" He shifted in his seat. "I didn't think so.

You want me dead? Next time, pretend to be a man and come at me yourself. Don't get someone else to do it for you." Duncan let go of Collier's arm, got to his feet, and stared down the men around them. "You boys have something you want to say?

Dangers and wilderness go hand in hand. That is part of the attraction of wilderness, and danger is part of the allure

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

In America, everything seemed fixable, and in Japan, difficult problems were to be endured. Shoganai, shoganai. How many times had he heard those words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes. Book 3, page 456

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

So the challenge for any quantum theory of gravity is to give us a deeper understanding of Bekenstein's entropy and Hawking's temperature.