Quotes About Challenges

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

I had twins, so it was really uncomfortable [to sleep], because you lay on one side, and there's a baby, and you lay on the other side and there's a baby. So I had a really hard time with it.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.

When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

Actually, it seems like every time I'm about to pack it in, that's when I get a job.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.