Quotes About Challenge

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

The first kind builds character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.

There is nothing we need to do that isn't dangerous.

After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, "In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony." I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, 'In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

No sooner are some false prophets put down than others pop up in all directions.

Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree.

The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail.

you can't describe a company or a leader as "great" until they have gone through a near-death experience and come back.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

Families," said Angel, with some feeling. "Can't live with them, can't have them killed without complications.

Every individual spends a lifetime trying to disprove Copernicus by placing him- or herself at the heart of existence, but a small core of diehards manages to turn it into an art.

Suo?avamo se s onima s kojima se moramo suo?iti i do?i ?e trenuci kad budemo morali djelovati za ve?e dobro, ?ak i ako postoji rizik za nas, ali ne trebamo nepotrebno izlagati život opasnosti. Imamo samo jedan život i možemo dati samo jedan život. Nema ništa divljenja vrijedno u tome da ga izgubimo kad je situacija beznadna.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

Sacred cows don't tip easily.

As for my being a horror writer, I actually think horror is a very conservative genre. The horror comes when you do something wrong--when you challenge religion or society or nature--and then you must pay. I personally consider myself a radical, but I publish conservative material. That's quite a paradox.

Christianity is perfectly easy or perfectly impossible. It depends on who's running the ship.

Captain Carpenter rose up in his primePut on his pistols and went riding out.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

The people who keep back change are often exasperating. But they have their work to perform, highly important work, too. Their very opposition, besides helping to weed out the weak ideas, gives the true ideas greater strength. For an idea is not worth much unless it can sturdily make its way through opposition and display toughness of fiber.

That which doesn't kill us will only try harder next time, so you might as well make the most of the space in between.

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge. – Oprah Winfrey

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