Quotes About Challenge

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.