Quotes About Challenge

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with a blowtorch

Challenge your self to read what your children are forced to endure, and then ask why we expect that textbooks - written and negotiated line by line to placate politically active interest groups in Texas and California - are up to the task of supplying a first-rate curriculum.

Diane Von Furstenberg

I worked as a cryptologist, where I decoded puzzles, even thought I can't make the jagged pieces of my own life fit.

Taking out a criminal was easier than phoning home.

Chasing down international killers without a firearm is easier than facing my feelings for you.

After all, the goal of non-binary identity is never to "pass" as a singular gender but rather, by our very existence, challenge and deconstruct the ways assumptions and presuppositions about gender altogether

Playing it safe never got anyone to the summit

What doesn't kill you will come back to finish the job.

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we'll play chess. Fuck them.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Events cast their shadows ahead; before a harsh winter, wild animals grow thicker fur, and the beaver puts on a thicker layer of fat. What kind of times and what sort of tasks can lie ahead for a generation that must think so harshly, even at such a young age, in order to survive?

Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience. We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbour or not. We must get into action and obey – we must behave like a neighbour to him.

What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.

Don't worry', he said. I almost laughed when he said that. Don't worry. It's only the people whove never had to worry about shit in their lives who say that.

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Complacency serves the old gods.

I can cope with Ambrosius," came Mona's voice from the shadows.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

Neuspeh u našoj sredini u?ini ?oveka budalom. Osramoti ga. Ponizi, isprlja. Ideji se niko ne suprostavlja idejom, nego nipodaštavanjem i psovkom. Znanje se ismejava. Istina mrzi i prezire.

Zato što velika ljubav mora da se dokazuje. Mala ne mora. (...) Velikoj ljubavi nijedan dokaz nije dovoljan. Kao ni velikoj veri. One se neprestano mu?e sa sumnjom.