Quotes About Challenge

If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and go down in flames.

The game I love to play : Keep the ball equidistant from Bruno and Roxy.

Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it's fair, it isn't a trial.

The Church has done many difficult things, and from these achievements one would not wish to detract. But all the easy things the Church has had to do have been done. From now on it is high adventure!

When superior minds start stating the obvious," said Amistad, "I tend to start questioning the appellation 'superior'.

A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

Maybe he should stop with the pot. But then he wouldn't be able to get stoned anymore, and that was hardly a solution.

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

Art means to dare — and to have been right.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of "crap.

Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.