Quotes About Challenge

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

What is life, but one long risk?

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Army life don't agree with me.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

A fight is a fight. And life is a fight.

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

God gives you a life and says, 'Okay, what are you going to do with it?'

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?