Quotes About Challenge

That's the good part of an injury, it strengthens you in many ways.

Invest in a trainer. You see the progress so quickly, and you push yourself in new ways.

When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of like an apprenticeship. And in lots of ways, it's a far harder form.

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

In every decision, there's two ways you can go. To quit, to stop, or to let it beat you. Or you can beat it.

I felt that if the public found out that a black man made a fool of David Duke, his attempts at a political career would have fallen by wayside.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

We cannot say that Asian Champions Trophy is that easy a contest.

By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.

If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.

Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.

Unfortunately, people always tend to think that girls are weak when it comes to physical tasks. The pressure is there to prove them wrong.

In the Champions League, there are no weak teams.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.