Quotes About Challenges

The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It's an honor to know that people actually want to know what I think about certain issues, but I also have to be careful about what I say or, rather, how I say it. The Internet is forever, y'all.

When we did 'The Last Picture Show,' the whole cast was unknowns, and we all got careers from it. Well, I don't think this could be done now.

No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

People with autism flourish in domains where the information is consistent and predictable, and struggle most in domains where the information is ambiguous and unlawful.

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.

Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I'm doing, though.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside me.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.

Women's football does have its knockers.

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.