Quotes About Challenge

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

every problem brings with it the seed of a solution

Playing it safe is like body surfing in two feet of water. You may not drown, but you're also not in deep enough to catch any but the most meager of waves. The most dangerous strategy is to play it safe. In its place, Break-It Thinkers take risks and break rules and challenge convention, making change an ally." —Robert Kriegel 2

Here are a few mind teasers to help you think in unexpected ways (see answers at end of chapter). • A bus with 15 passengers crashed and all but 9 people were killed. How many survivors were there? • How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark? • I have 2 coins that total $.35 in value. One is not a quarter. What are the 2 coins?

If failure is not a possibility then winning is not so sweet.

Have fun in everything you do. Challenge yourself to bigger and better things.

Perhaps the unwelcome event you've encountered is just an opportunity to help you know how to stand up stronger.

Hill once said: "Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities."4

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

The role of dissent is to force all of us to question our dogmas and biases. It is to stretch the spectrum of discourse.

Make no mistake: We are being tested. Without a vibrant, fearless free press, our great American experiment may fail.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? . . . We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

That's your job. To make something out of nothing. To pull together all the disparate threads: recruiting (with no money), fundraising (with no reputation), and delivering joy (with no product). You must fabricate the chicken and the egg. Simultaneously.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

This book challenges such traditional ways of seeing and writing about art.

She was wearing her T-shirt with the bull's-eye printed over her heart, the one that says, GO AHEAD AND TRY IT, BUFFY.

I had one objective: fix this. There was one other thought in a corner of my brain: What the

I was now planning on replacing "bull in a china shop" with "dragon sees a new hoard.

If you pit a good employee against a bad system, the system will win almost every time" (Rummler and Brache, 1995, p. 75).

Do you feel like you've been through a meat grinder or just tumbled around in a cement mixer?

No matter what her father wanted, no way was Clara going to partner up with Light Walker. He'd suggested a tarantula for a snack, for heaven's sake. The were never, ever, ever going to work together.