Quotes About Challenge

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it."

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Two men are walking in the woods. A ferocious grizzly bear charges at them and they start to run. While running, they shout: Man 1: We'll never outrun the bear. Man 2: I don't have to. My only question is "Can I outrun you?

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. —George Polya When

Setting a higher bar for yourself for what you mean by understanding can revolutionize how you perceive the world.

Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.

But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.

En ik sta te denken dat je toch gehoopt zou hebben dat iemand na al die tijd een douche zou hebben uitgevonden waarbij het gemakkelijk is om het water op de juiste temperatuur te krijgen. Maar dat lijkt de zoveelste te zijn dat de mensheid maar niet voor elkaar krijgt.

We know that we have got about 2500 ft. to fall yet . . . and if it comes all in the first hundred miles we shan't be dreading rapids afterwards for if it should continue at this rate much more than a hundred miles we should have to go the rest of the way up hill which is not often the case with rivers.

Old Mrs. Whiton stopped waving. She stood on the steps of the old house, looking up at the sky, where clouds were piling in the northeast. That meant a storm was coming, and old Mrs. Whiton's eyes flashed. She liked storms. They were a challenge to her. She went into the house, and soon her typewriter keys were clacking wildly, furiously, as though the storm were already there and she were racing the wind of it.

They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano.

The Breakfast of Champions.

Before someone gets their driver's license they should have to beat Rainbow Road on Mario Kart without falling off.

One more river,And that's the river of Jordan,One more river,There's one more river to cross.

The referees have always been blind, it's our job to make them deaf.

At 13,000 feet nothing else matters.

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.

A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.