Quotes About Challenge

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

Learning makes us all uncomfortable.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas