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Quotes About Challenge

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat
~ Holly Hunter
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.
~ Jean Dubuffet
The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
~ Jimmy Connors
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare
~ John Lithgow
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
~ Lillie Langtry
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
~ Gwen Stefani
The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
~ Alton Brown
I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.
~ David Baldacci
The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
~ Drew Houston
Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.
~ Lee Iacocca
I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.
~ Mark Cuban
You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...
~ Taylor Mali
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
~ Wendell Willkie
Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.
~ Abigail Johnson
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
~ Alan Bean
There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.
~ Andres Serrano
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
~ Anne Tyler
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
~ Beverly Cleary
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.
~ Cindy Sherman
I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
~ Claude Monet
My dream match is me and Chris Benoit against Fit Finlay and William Regal. That way I get to work with Benoit and I get to beat up and get beat up by Finlay and Regal.
~ CM Punk
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
~ Colin Baker