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Quotes About Challenge

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.
~ Sean Hannity
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
~ Salman Rushdie
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
~ Ann Coulter
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
~ Walt Whitman
When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
~ Sophocles
Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.
~ Meg Cabot
If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.
~ Norman Geras
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
~ Plutarch
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.
~ Mas Oyama
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
~ M. C. Escher
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
~ Amedeo Modigliani
Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.
~ Choi Hong Hi
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
~ Paul Daniels
Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.
~ Nobuyoshi Araki
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible
~ Toni Cade Bambara
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
~ Louis Dudek
Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.
~ Lisette Model
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
~ Warren Adler
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow