Quotes About Challenges

Before when I said I'm going to get married, I thought my life is going to be peaceful. But then, I ended up with a politician so it slightly got a little complicated.

Being a plus-size actress, it is slim pickings, so anytime any role comes up for a plus-size actress, my agents are all over it, and they were like, 'You have to book this job. It's 'American Horror Story.' It's a big deal.' No pressure, right?

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

I knew my chances of playing beyond college were extremely slim. You just don't see too many 5-foot-10 quarterbacks out there.

It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.

The margin between winning and losing is slim.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I've never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.

There's a lot of big fights potentially out there for me, but none of them are possible if I slip up against N'Dam.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.

When I was playing Under-14s I had a bit of a problem with a pelvic slip disc. That left me bed-ridden for about six weeks.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

As a depressive, routine is sand slipping through my fingers. Being self-employed doesn't help.

I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

But that's a part of life; you're going through and nothing ever works out how you wanted. Nothing ever completed cleanly the way that you wanted. It is sloppy and messy, and when you think it's over, 'Oh great. We have a bit more to do.' There's always another bit of road ahead, even when you think you've gotten to the end.

Risk takes on a lot of different forms, be it financial, the draft slot, something physical.

I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.