Quotes About Challenge

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

Watching as Boris's last chips were scooped away, Will thought it was probably because he had always had an innate sense of how much easier it was to lose than win.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

we cannot escape the things we must face.

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.

cant get there from here

But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?

He did," I said. "But I told him he'd just have to shoot me.

The only imperfection in life then was that we didn't really have much money.

What needs to be reinforced is the idea that good writing - solid, honest, entertaining, beautiful good writing - is simultaneously the reward, the challenge, and the goal.

Marrying a 'mercurial, dramatic, shouty and difficult' actress who demanded a role in his films had been a challenge.110

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Education is painful. It means changing the way you think, challenging your truths, saying it in a different way. It is life changing. You will be unsettled, pushed and pulled. So empower yourself and take on the challenge.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

If you had ever leaned sideways into the breeze with a sand wedge in your hands, staring through windblown tears at a golf ball entombed in four feet of fanged thistle, clothes soaked through to the skin, fingers like an overworked fishmonger, and yet you couldn't bring yourself to stop smiling—then you got it.

True development does not respect comfort.

No substantial change has ever been managed without risk.

Sometimes, life is like mountain climbing. After you've achieved your biggest goals, you must return to the starting point to complete the journey and share your story with others to encourage them for their climb.

Risks and benefits always go hand in hand. The reason that a project is full of risk is that it leads you into uncharted waters. It stretches your capability, which means that if you pull it off successfully, it's going to drive your competition batty. The ultimate coup is to stretch your own capability to a point beyond the competition's ability to respond. This is what gives you competitive advantage and helps you build a distinct brand in the market.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.