Quotes About Challenge

a risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.

De a sors tovább ?z minket.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

The three of us are always in danger," said Arlo. "That's sort of our thing.

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

There I stood, looking at myself in the mirror, thinking that I had come so far, I had worked so hard, and now the disease was threatening to stamp out all of my progress.

La misma energía que podría utilizarse para resolver el problema se disipa negando el problema, ocultando el problema y evitando el problema.

Halfway up the drive there was God these tedious details. Halfway up there was a…

The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.

Belief is hard, and the abyss is always there, under one's feet.

I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?

A teraz, ju? po wszystkim, co? nowego si? zacz??o, nowego dla mnie - trudna sztuka ?ycia po ?mierci.

Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, the will butting its blunt head against the world's wall [...]

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

There is no way to master the fact with which I live.

If your library is not unsafe, it probably isn't doing its job.

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

THE DREAM BECOMES A NIGHTMARE

You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don't, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after.

Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

He decided to talk to the Hopeless Case

In that direction only pain lies.