Quotes About Challenge

It's inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it

Define 'absolute shit.

Freedom is a huge risk, and while most people aspire to attain it, they don't know how to put it to use.

Le non, vous l'avez déjà ma fille, risquez le oui.

Sembra che per te nulla sia un problema. -Forse perché mi piace cercare le soluzioni, e così non ho paura dei problemi.

If you're good enough to survive, you're going to have to accept that down the road the game changes.

How many times in your life have you been told that something is one way, while you're staring at something entirely different? If you're like most people, when you mention that something is amiss, you get slapped down, either verbally, emotionally, or physically, or told that you're nuts or stupid.

In our interview, Conan said something about the secret of his success: "Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice." And that's what I'm doing, because I had no choice.

Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice.

That's the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

he decided that his only remaining option was to take his case to Rome.

This was a far more perilous proposition than it had been on his first visit,

Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale. —Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857

Das größte Vergnügen im Leben besteht darin, Dinge zu tun, die man nach Meinung anderer Leute nicht fertigbringt.

I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

C'était mon premier grand départ. Si voyager seul, c'est voyager avec le Diable, je me félicite de l'avoir fait.

Tout bon livre est un attentat. [in Essai sur moi-même]

My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the tyranny of rhyme forces into the discovery of their finest lines.

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

My mother had to abandon the quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further refinement of thought, as great poets do when the tyranny of rhyme forces them into the discovery of their finest lines.