Quotes About Challenge

Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to that limit in competition.

Because the only way to become really good at coping with the discomforts and stresses of endurance sports is to experience them.

how can fear ruin my experience if I embrace it as an integral part of the experience?

Athletes who have been gifted with exceptional talent and other blessings that enable them to sail to the top of their sport—athletes like Cadel Evans—may therefore be doubly disadvantaged where resilience is concerned.

Endurance sports are largely about discomfort and stress; hence they are largely about coping.

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope.

To become the best athlete you can be, you need to become really good at coping with the characteristic forms of discomfort and stress that the endurance sports experience dishes out, beginning with perceived effort and extending to the many challenges that are secondary to it, such as fear of failure.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

In order to get over a problem it helps to look at it. You can't climb a mountain that you pretend isn't there.

Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.

So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.

I don't think your problem was stage fright. Or wedding fright. I think your problem was life fright.

There was no use trying to think of a way, because it was impossible. And the only way you could make something impossible real wasn't through logic or sensible thinking. No. It was to believe it could be done.

Philip K. Dick wrote that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Trouble doesn't always have to be caused. It's sometimes already there.

And hope was often irrational. It made no sense. If it had made sense, it would have been called, well, sense. The other thing about hope was that it took effort, and I had never been used to effort.

The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human being.

Minds can't see what they can't handle. It's like how humans never see the second hand of a clock mid-tick.

The fun is in the jumping, mon amie.' 'But what if it's in the landing?

In every life there is a moment, A crisis. One that says, what I believe is wrong. It happens to everyone, the only difference being how that knowledge changes them.

The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – / I took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference . . .' 'What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?