Quotes About Challenge

If it's a shitshow, you can no longer hold your shit together. Access to shit-holding has been denied.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

better not bring up a lion inside your city, But if you must, then humour all his moods.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

But he who would provoke me should remember That those who rifle wasps' nests will be stung!

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;

A little number?" "Fucked." "Thank you.

I couldn't write—or wouldn't write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

Did you say Ends of the Earth?!! I don't think I've enough gas for that!!

The path to Mecca is extremely hard and stony, and the worst of it is that you never quite get there after all!

His was the kind of perseverance that, for the fun of it, will perish in an attempt.

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man.

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the tops of mountains, but to improve the man. —WALTER BONATTI, Italian climber

I did get myself into this. Somehow, in some convoluted way, it's what I've been looking for in my life. How else did I come to be here? We create our lives. I don't fully understand why, but little by little I get that somehow I've wanted something like this to happen. I've been looking for adventure, and I've found it.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far

Dying is easy; parking is impossible.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.

La única posibilidad de descubrir los límites de lo posible es aventurarse un poco más allá de ellos, hacia lo imposible.