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Quotes About Challenge

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
~ Andre Gide
If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'
~ Trey Parker
Predictability and great design are not friends.
~ Fred Brooks
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
~ Sallust
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
~ Jonathan Ive
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
~ George Chapman
I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
~ Graham Nash
It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.
~ Craig R. Barrett
I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.
~ Gordon Strachan
Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.
~ Jennifer James
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.
~ Jonathan Ive
Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.
~ Lewis Howes
No tricks, Syn, " Ryder growled from where he stood a few feet away."Tricks are for kids, silly rabbit, " I said
~ Amelia Hutchins
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.
~ Marisa Tomei
The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.
~ Fridtjof Nansen
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
~ Andy Rooney
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
~ Hunter S. Thompson
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
~ Willem de Kooning
Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.
~ Dov Davidoff