Quotes About Challenge

You're going to have to get much smarter very quickly.

Empathy is a losing game

But this—this is always the same task over and over, to explore cryptozoology of a crude sort. All that changes is the type of animal, and the only challenge is whether the jaws on a crocodile can reasonably be expected to fit onto a bear. For example.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

We're astronauts. All of the expedition members have been astronauts.

For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Es más difícil romper un prejuicio que un átomo.

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means. ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87

I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrade?

Quanto mais difícil, mais divertido é encontrar um motivo pra ficar contente.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It's to survive as yourself, undiminished.

You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

Se muere con demasiada facilidad. Morir debería ser mucho más difícil. PDH

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

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Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we encounter scenarios that challenge our beliefs.

Some people don't like being happy. They're much more comfortable when they have a problem.

Him and his Life is all adventure stuff. He says, Don't think too hard about it. Just ask yourself this: what would you do if you weren't afraid?

the seasickness. And so, Captain Smith

Sometimes when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.

the truth is that life is risky and dangerous

Lo principal que hacía era escucharlos, pero también los animaba a «ver» que todavía les era posible llevar vidas plenas, productivas y felices. La vida es un reto, no una tragedia.

When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.