Quotes About Challenge

Every time I think I've got you figured out you throw me a curve. - Veronica Knox

comments because he needed Slick to

Come on, soldier, you put your life on the line for your country. A damn zipper shouldn't be too hard.

can do this. You can make it. Forty miles per hour. He pushed the throttles ahead and crept the speed stick up to forty-five. He was almost topped out now. Even with the twin stern-drive engines he wouldn't be able to muster more speed without unduly depleting his fuel. And there

time in the equation. They had a lot to lose.

never been faced with something like this. I have our people here working on it, but don't expect a fast answer.

Life is not fair any way you cut it, Michelle. You know that and I know that. We've lived that stuff too often to recognize it any other way.

you ran when it was fifty degrees below zero, your lungs would hemorrhage and you'd drown in your own engorged corpuscles.

David Baldacci

sixty-four-thousand-dollar question

Decker said, "It doesn't have to be this

fueled him with a stamina, a resolve before which many an obstacle had wilted.

an answer. Thought I'd tee it up again." "You think I'm supposed

When the going got tough, you just kicked your own ass even harder.

There's one key difference between the Olympics and combat, Susan. You might have overlooked it." He paused. "In the Olympics, no one is shooting back at you.

You're going down this time, Isabel Kabra. - Dan

You may not even have known that you had an assumption. It was only because he came up with the opposite one that you find out that you have one. You may uncover other assumptions, but we are all suspending them and looking at them all, seeing what they mean.

No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. David Bowie

It's always time to question what has become standard and established.

Back up this 'grant-hugging' calumny on the Fox web site by next week, or admit now that you're a coward-liar.

Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.

Great leaders, I came to believe, challenge themselves and others to understand their businesses better and rethink them so that they can achieve two seemingly conflicting things at the same time. That same intellectual discipline—that mind-set of rigor and curiosity—allows leaders to master what is arguably the most important conflict of all: attaining strong short-term results while also investing in the future to achieve great long-term results.

My first and most enduring challenge as CEO was to dramatically improve the quality of both our individual thinking and our group discussions.