Quotes About Challenge

La scoperta dell'energia atomica non ha creato un nuovo problema, ha solo reso più urgente la necessità di risolverne uno già esistente

Never stop questioning

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened... Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be... We are apparently on the trail here of some sort of invisible or hidden hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us.

In real-life situations, however, risks frequently increase without any corresponding increase in the payoff:

The starting point is a question.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

Era un consejo demasiado bueno como para que yo pudiera seguirlo.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Every change is a menace to stability.

Living's much more difficult than Sanskrit or chemistry or economics.

Consider your own lives," said Mustapha Mond. "Has any of you ever encountered an insurmountable obstacle?" The question was answered by a negative silence. "Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfilment?

in the psychological equivalent of Australia.

Ebbene, si disse il Selvaggio in tono di sfida io reclamo il diritto d'essere infelice

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

We all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. What we do when we reach those bars helps define us.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Es necesaria la desgracia para socavar ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas para la inteligencia humana; es precisa la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora

Es necesaria la desgracia para socavar ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana; es precisa la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora.

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