Quotes About Challenge

Facing four hundred million man-years of calculations, with a resulting railroad car full of strategy tables, enough to fill a Rolodex five miles long, I tried to simplify the problem. I

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

THE GREATEST CHALLENGE today, not just in cell biology and ecology but in all of science, is the accurate and complete description of complex systems.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

It can't be easy, living in the park." "Maybe it was a greater effort being who he was.

Because of the distinctive adaptive challenges we face as a species, we require a way to inject controlled doses of chaos into our lives.

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...

Nothing so stubborn could change until it became more painful to avoid than to confront.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I can't help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible.

Away from the safety of your home, the universe was not made for your convenience.

The hardest part of research is always to find a question that's big enough that it's worth answering, but little enough that you actually can answer it.

Life is the game that must be played

KENNEL, YE SONS OF BITCHES!

Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will "naturally" choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.

the extent we function and grow within the context of our own souls (a lifetime project) and abet the emergence of our own selves (by a willingness to face life's challenges and oneself), our spirituality and our tradition will spring naturally from our being.

Before I can solve a problem I must state it to myself. When I think I have found the solution I must prove I am right. I know of only one way to prove it; and that is, with my own money.

The game taught me the game. And it didn't spare the rod while teaching." <(^^,)>

an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.

If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power. Just consider what you have to do to guess right.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

A man to match the mountains and the sea.

Though this guard is natural to them, yet they vary every moment, to perplex their adversaries,