Quotes About Challenge

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

As an actor there is an urge to act only if something really interesting comes my way.

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

I will say, if you are planning a seaplane expedition anytime soon I urge you to brace yourselves.

Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.

I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

We turn the Cube and it twists us.

It's the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.