Quotes About Challenge

Fee-uck, man. This game is still on. I get that sixty-two yet. I get his ass and whip it into shape. Damnright. I get that shitpiss sixty-two and beat his black ass into the ground. He's white, I said. I know he's white. They're all white. Everybody's white. Black fucks.

At first it was only a nuisance. Now it's a nuisance that threatens to become a way of life.

Aren't you going too far?" "I'm from New York.

Fuck you. Show some amazement.

Only the fiercest risks make existence possible.

Frustration is oftentimes a wonderful alternative to complacency.

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

It is amazing how often people solve the problem before them without bothering to question it.

People invariably object and complain whenever a new approach is introduced into an existing array of products and systems. Conventions are violated: new learning is required. The merits of the new system are irrelevant: it is the change that is upsetting.

It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

One of my rules in consulting is simple: never solve the problem I am asked to solve. Why such a counterintuitive rule? Because, invariably, the problem I am asked to solve is not the real, fundamental, root problem. It is usually a symptom. Just

But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.

Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?

The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once

You will be attacked for trying to change anything.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.

They're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.

When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out.