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Quotes About Challenge

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
~ Harold Geneen
I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.
~ Helen Mirren
Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.
~ Henry Ford
In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.
~ Henry Ian Cusick
I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.
~ Hilary Swank
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.
~ Horace
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.
~ Isabel Lucas
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
~ Jacki Weaver
Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.
~ James Badge Dale
I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
~ James Badge Dale
I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss.
~ Unknown
Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.
~ Jane Fonda
The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
~ Jean Cocteau
Bones smiled. "Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.
~ Jeaniene Frost
I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
~ Jemaine Clement
People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.
~ Unknown
The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.
~ Joe Swanberg
This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.
~ Joe Teti
Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.
~ Lena Olin
So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.
~ Jay Alan Sekulow
I love strategy and RPG games.
~ Masi Oka
My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.
~ Chris Harris, Jr.
A fight involves the emotion, the strategy of combat. There are many factors connected to a fight.
~ Lyoto Machida