Quotes About Challenge

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.