Quotes About Challenges

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Believe me, man, there are people who are going to have way more troubles mentally than I am.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

Men never believe a woman can do anything.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."