Quotes About Challenge

I think I'm confident because I'm free, I challenge myself, and I stick to what I do.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

My own experience of dating cis-hetero men has really been a challenge, because of the stigma they have to endure for attempting to love us.

Mountaineering is over. Alpinism is dead. Maybe its spirit is still alive a little in Britain and America, but it will soon die out.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable.

Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.

Adversity is a stimulus.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.