Quotes About Challenge

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

I would be happy to run a race with Hillary Clinton any time.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's being alive.

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

I think if I had been a man, I would be richer. That hurts. But at the same time, I have to keep fighting and not think too much about "what if," because that doesn't lead you anywhere.