Quotes About Challenge

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

The world is kept alive only by heretics.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

A winning strategy must include losing.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Learn to be difficult when it counts

The detour is always rougher than the main road

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!