Quotes About Challenge

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge.

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.

I grew up with a marine grandfather. I was never allowed to say 'can't' or 'no', and I was never allowed to back down.

I can't play a 65-year-old grandfather, as much as I'd like to.

You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

I've said this before, I would fight my grandmother if I had to. And she's dead.

When you really struggle at one thing, you don't take it for granted.

I don't take anybody for granted, but I see myself beating each and every fighter that I face.

Leaders grasp nettles.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.

It's gratifying to hear something familiar and challenging at the same time.

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

It's hard to make great art when you've got too much pressure.

Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

I was having all these thoughts, not really sure what I was doing in school. And I just said, 'I'm gonna go out and climb.' I had this great day with a friend, bouldering and rooting each other on, and I came back thinking, 'I don't like the way it feels to be competitive. I don't want to be ruled by it.'

It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really foreign to me. I want it to be something great, and I want to have a great experience.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.