Quotes About Challenge

Epictetus tells us that "it is difficulties that reveal what men amount to; and so, whenever you're struck by a difficulty, remember that God, like a trainer in the gymnasium, has matched you against a tough young opponent." And why would God do such a thing?

Epictetus tells us that "it is difficulties that reveal what men amount to; and so, whenever you're struck by a difficulty, remember that God, like a trainer in the gymnasium, has matched you against a tough young opponent." And why would God do such a thing? "So that you may become an Olympic victor; and that is something that can't be achieved without sweat.

Marcus: "Yes, they say that life is more like wrestling than like dancing.

If you refuse to enter contests that you are capable of losing, you will never lose a contest.

the art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."46

If you know why you believe something, you will not be upset by having that belief challenged.

what Jesus is saying is: 'I am setting you a hard task, and I am sending you out on a very difficult engagement. But I am going to send you someone, the parakl?tos, who will guide you as to what to do and enable you to do it.

Vay haline, bilmemesi gerekeni bilmek isteyenin ve gücünü aÅŸan bir iÅŸe giriÅŸen gözüpek kiÅŸinin.

A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

With stupidity, even the gods struggle in vain.') Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

Adventure must start with running away from home.

He (Cicero) made Catiline and his conspiracy actually simple; the man himself had the courage to sit in front of him and listen, and at the end, it seemed as if he had exposed Catiline even to himself.

But the better the training, the greater and more detailed the preparation, the more men are at the mercy of the impossible.

All these outposts were broken in,and that which in other histories would have counted as three victories did not delay the progress of Charles for one hour

I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor.

twice. "On the ninth day the

The task before you is therefore twofold: first, to get your people through this phase of transition in one piece; and second, to capitalize on all the confusion by encouraging them to be innovative.

Such conflicts are reminders of the Fourth Law of Organizational Development: whenever there is a painful, troubled time in the organization, a developmental transition is probably going on.

transitions will need to make sense to people, for otherwise people will resist them and make it far harder for the organization to grow as it must.

Looking at each of these cases as simply "innovation" underestimates the challenge they faced. What innovation's champions are actually doing is creating a new organization, and to do that they must go back to the start of the life cycle. What we call "an innovation" is really a new Dream.

One of the most difficult aspects of the neutral zone is that most people don't understand it. They expect to be able to move straight from the old to the new. But this isn't a trip from one side of the street to the other. It's a journey from one identity to another, and that kind of journey takes time.

The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.

Every organizational system has its own natural "immune system" whose task it is to resist unfamiliar, and so unrecognizable, signals. That is not necessarily bad.