Quotes About Challenge

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

I think about moving across the country, barely having the money to do it, it gives me so much anxiety. I think there's something to be said for just not knowing, being a little naive, and just flying by the seat of your pants, because it is a big thing, it's really stressful.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

Coming on to bowl in the opening powerplay might look stressful for a spinner but I actually quite like it.

The Olympics was really, really stressful because I had never done anything like it. At the same time, I was understanding something like that could never really happen again. I embraced it and took in everything.

For those who have served in combat, life is never the same. It puts the most stressful civilian situations into a whole different context.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.

It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.

I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.

It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

When the fights were over for the second and third 'Matrix,' I thought, 'Okay, I never have to do that again.' It's incredibly stressful.

When things get stressful and crazy and you think to yourself, 'When will this get easier?' it won't, because that's what a career feels like.

The idea of doing something that I've never done before, that presents a new challenge, that forces me to stretch in some way - that's kind of a perfect project for me, and especially something that has greater social, conversational ramifications. I mean what more could you want?

Actors usually tend to gravitate towards the evil things that stretch them.

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

If you're a good actor, you should be able to do soap, comedy, Shakespeare, musicals, pantomime, and something like 'Frozen.' Of course, you will be better at some things, but who says you can't do them all? The intent should always be to stretch yourself and broaden your horizons.

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.

I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.