Quotes About Challenge

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

I want to go and fight the best guys in the world and show people I'm the best. And hey, if something doesn't go my way - I don't think that's gonna happen. I realize that's a possibility in competition, and that's what happens.

He made the impossible possible.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

I don't want a perfect life, I don't want an easy life, I want to live life to the fullest. To me that feels like conquering as many things as possible.

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'

Al Jefferson. One-on-one on the post, man, can't guard him.

Post career-threatening injury, you must fight not only your body, but your mind as well.

My struggle began after my first film, post a success, post a jubilee of so many weeks.

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.