Quotes About Challenge

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

One must overcome history by dogma.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.