Quotes About Challenge

Identity is going to play a role in nearly every change situation.

Top management challenged employees to be on the lookout for potential innovations—

the failure will trigger the "flight" instinct

Ambiguity is the enemy. Any successful change requires a translation of ambiguous goals into concrete behaviors.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Or you could focus on the Path, in which case you would disregard hearts and minds entirely. In fact, suppose you stipulated outright that your workers are hopeless, that they're irredeemable daredevils who are determined to waggle their fingers in the machine's danger zone for the sheer sport of it. Could you still keep them from dismembering themselves?

High standards + assurance is a powerful formula, but ultimately it's just a statement of expectations. What great mentors do is add two more elements: direction and support. I have high expectations for you and I know you can meet them. So try this new challenge and if you fail, I'll help you recover. That's mentorship in two sentences. It sounds simple, yet it's powerful enough to transform careers.

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge.

Never choose something because it's easier.

A problem is a problem only if you believe it to be so.

Even the most startling adventure, sooner or later, must become routine.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art. That pretty much sums up my existence, she thinks.

If they can put one man on the moon why can't they put them all there?

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem.

The difference, she decided, was that now there was something to be done. Hell would be raised, and Oberon would come or not, but at least there would be no more idle tears. The night would end in joy or ruin, and somehow that was easier to abide than an endless, static grief.

entrepreneurship has meant either setting up a corner grocery shop or some other sort of modest local business or, more rarely, a total pie-in-the-sky crapshoot around an idea that is more likely to bring ruination than riches.

étrier step, pulled delicately on the next one, and tried

No guts, no story.

if the wrong people are not criticizing you, then you may not be doing the right things!

The biggest complaint we heard in those days was that the training was too easy.

Philosophical systems have a habit of collapsing under the scrutiny of the next malcontent to come along.