Quotes About Challenge

All I really wanted to do was solve an immediate problem

Marx portrays religion as a response to the oppression and heartlessness of the world; but an inadequate response because instead of challenging the oppression itself, it merely numbs the pain.

Human beings have the power to continue to oppress other species forever, or until we make this planet unsuitable for living beings. Will our tyranny continue...? Or will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending the ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels and terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?

He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism;

What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.

The challenge is not only what to select for telling and how to present it, but how to evoke, simultaneously, the Theater of the World—how to make the leap from ego-vision to omnivision.

Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.

For a journey without challenge, has no meaning; one without purpose, has no soul.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. SØREN KIERKEGAARD

Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new.

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

That is what I wanted, to find in a commonplace world a chance to live heroically. Having known nothing but security, comfort, and peace, I hungered for danger, challenges, and violence.

On the other side is chaos, libertinism, vice, danger and the unknown. And the unknown will always remain so to those who do not choose to explore it.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.

I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back, a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?

I have never yielded to reality.

That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

Joe Chip said, 'I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

But change's always harsh on the loser. Nothing new.

the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.