Quotes About Challenge

His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.

The clapping got louder. Sweat ran down my ribs from my armpits. This was a lot scarier than going into sudden-death overtime in a crowded arena.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

The scope of one's personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.

Cilv?ku lielais vairums str?d? tikai nepieciešam?bas spiesti, un no š? cilv?ka dabisk? riebuma pret darbu izriet pašas smag?k?s soci?l?s probl?mas.

It is an honour to have plenty of enemies!

no serious book can now be sure of surviving.

What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most. Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?

Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?

The severest test of the imagination is naming a cat

It's always good to start off anything by breaking a rule.

Good days are granted to sensible people, but the grandest of days are enjoyed by those who dare to act unwisely.

There were too many twists & turns to this story, too many oddly shaped pieces to fit into this quilt.

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she—this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"—deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible.

You'd have to be a mad dog or a Celt to venture out into the noonday gales in this dump, I tell you.

Shit . . . Well, in for a sestertius, in for a denarius.

A problem worthy of attack Proves its worth by fighting back. Piet Hein

it is relatively easy to scramble an egg, but to unscramble it is far harder.

He was a rather quirky worker, and he didn't really fit into the day-to-day business of GCHQ. But in terms of coming up with new ideas he was quite exceptional. You had to sort through some rubbish sometimes, but he was very innovative and always willing to challenge the orthodoxy.

Jestliže nÄ›kdy platí, že nutnost je matkou invence, pak je rovn?ž možné, že ohrožení je matkou kryptoanalýzy.

John Ruskin once noted that "to paint water in all its perfection is as impossible as to paint the soul.

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; so to say it is ambiguous is to assert that it's meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure & outrageousness, to save his existence.

C'est en risquant sa vie que l'homme s'élève au-dessus de l'animal.

But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.