Quotes About Challenge

Anyone can fight a battle that's easy to win. It's fighting the battles that are impossible to win that causes humanity to take those great leaps forward.

little bit. There're two ways to respond to them, Jean-Luc: either roll over and give them what they want, or fight them no matter what the risk. Which option are you going to embrace!?

fiction is a harsher, more demanding mistress than fact.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company's assumptions, and they must challenge a company's current outlook. One

We may not understand the reason for it; indeed, we often cannot figure it out. Still, an incongruity is a symptom of an opportunity to innovate.

You're shrinking Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!

a country like China is accustomed to making difficult choices that Americans might not dream of considering

It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.

The evangelist put his hand on the man's shoulder and asked him if he wanted to become a Christian. The man growled back at the evangelist, I'm a deacon in this church! And the evangelist said, Don't let that stand in your way!

I'd just had a review lesson in what I'd already learned over and over in a year and a half of exploring these Gulf of Mexico waters. These waters, the skies over the Gulf, the winds--they all did whatever, whenever they wanted. And we humans basically have two choices when it comes to the sea. We can either stay away from it all. Or we can be ready for anything.

One of Beethoven's biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For

Back when Alistair had made his promise to Hope and Arthur. A promise that had been nearly impossible to keep.

Peter Lerangis

Peter Lerangis

A problem is merely a solution waiting to be found.

dug itself into the

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

What was it Beckett wrote? 'I can't go on. I'll go on.' Story of my life.

trouble. Events

Art is long, life is short', goes the old adage, and arranging a limited number of paintings to represent the numerous developments and styles of Western art is by all standards a Herculean task.

You have to catch people making mistakes and make it so that it's cool. You have to make it undesirable to play it safe.