Quotes About Challenge

I strongly suggest not trying that attitude with the crew, either." "Why? Because it would be mean?" "No, because they'll break a butter knife off in your neck.

Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win?

You have five minutes," I said. "Of course, because any more time would make this too easy.

High-risk, high-reward situations where the path to success isn't laid out but has to be cut by machetes through a jungle filled with poison toads.

My job is to be your loyal opposition.

I am also aware that ideals are hard to practice, especially when they are new.

Fighting someone who was intimately aware of your internal state of mind made it an interesting extra challenge.

Isn't that the way science works? You present a hypothesis to your peers, you show them all your measurements and observations and data, and you ask them to make you a liar.

Welcome to the fucking universe! The universe is a fucked-up place, my friends.

I want to be there when you question him." "No you don't." "I really do." "Let me put it another way, Lord Marce. Fuck you, go away.

Alan hasn't lost it," I said. "And he's been in as long as I have." "That's true," Keyes said. "What's your answer to that, Rosenthal?" "I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn't the same thing as easy.

When you find them, blow them up a little for me.

What happens if the plan doesn't work and our ships are shot out of the sky?" I asked. "Well, then I suppose we're fucked, Perry

I can't do that, Harry said. I don't have the math for it.

It's your job to save humanity, Perry." "No pressure there

Are you insane? You can't just barge into my office and tell people to fuck off.""And yet here I am," Kiva said. "In your office. Telling this extraneous dimwit to fuck off.

True innovation does not happen when we control creativity," Shai wrote in 2005, "but when we challenge, create shared vision, and passionately pursue excellence."3

It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.

He held the apple box against his chest. And then he leaned over and set the box in the stream and steadied it with his hand. He said fiercely, Go down an' tell 'em. Go down in the street an' rot an' tell 'em that way. That's the way you can talk. Don' even know if you was a boy or a girl. Ain't gonna find out. Go on down now, an' lay in the street. Maybe they'll know then.