Quotes About Challenge

That's a dilly of a pickle.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't mean we will change.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't necessarily mean we will change.

You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

The experience is always different than the plans. The experience was exhausting. I am still exhausted from it.

Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later

Fighting is a way to feel, an anti–video game, a way to force some-thing to happen. That's what brought me back to it, because when I've fought someone, I know something has happened. How many days of your life pass you by that you could take or leave? When nothing really happened?

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up a major university scholarship and challenged a prominent magazine's editorial boundaries until he was fired. He wouldn't follow his father's burdened, suit-and-tie path to an early death; he might kill himself, but in a different way.

He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.

I always favored the mavericks who challenged my rules. I may have fought them all the way, but I respected them, and, in the end, I listened to them a lot more closely than I did the pack who always agreed with everything I said.

So, as William honed his skill at Bengali, his thoughts vacillated from triumph to failure. 'Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God' he reminded himself. What could be more ambitious, festering in a muddy forest with a distraught wife, than to begin translating the Bible into Bengali?

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

So part of the job of philosophy of science is to question assumptions that scientists take for granted.

No way in, go in, measure.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.