Quotes About Challenges

You need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.