Quotes About Challenges

La clave es esta: cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.

The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.

conversations each year with fellow participants confirmed my hunch: the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power. The reactions to my probing always pointed in the same direction: power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.

In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

The previous holders of these jobs not only dealt with fewer challengers and competitors, but they also had fewer constraints—in the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny—on using the power they had.

En el siglo XXI, el poder es más fácil de adquirir, más difícil de utilizar y más fácil de perder. Desde las salas de juntas y las zonas de combate hasta el ciberespacio, las luchas de poder son tan intensas como lo han sido siempre, pero cada vez dan menos resultados.

They'd stopped being shrewd worshippers begging for interviews and had become irritating stones in the revolution's shoes.

La brecha entre nuestro verdadero poder y lo que la gente espera de nosotros es lo que genera las presiones más difíciles que debe soportar cualquier jefe de Estado».

Nadie sobresale. La oposición sigue perdida.

Las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo deben ahora competir con rivales de todas partes.

The solutions to the new challenges of international cooperation—ultimately, of sharing the planet—will emerge in a landscape where power is easier to obtain and harder to use or even to keep.

un ejército moderno y de gran tamaño ya no basta para garantizar que un país pueda alcanzar sus objetivos estratégicos.

Books and marriage go ill together.

In the great litterbox of relationships, shit happens.

She writes better than anyone else about the mother–daughter relationship, in all its thorny, fraught, inescapable complexity.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

That night, my heart softened around Wills's autism. Clearly, Katherine had been right. I couldn't isolate him. As painful as it was to watch him paralyzed with fright, I knew that he was happier when he tried. Not showing up was admitting defeat. Admitting that he couldn't do it. Admitting that the autism was bigger than him.

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

Ma questa è la storia della mia vita dissipata, che è fatta essenzialmente di oltraggi da vendicare e ferite da rimarginare

You are not a failure when you fall down, you become one when you stay down. To succeed you must keep rising one more time.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

A veces, los padres no pueden proteger a sus hijos incluso aunque les quieran más que a nada en el mundo. A veces incluso cuando lo intentan con todas sus fuerzas, no pueden salvarlos. Puedo

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.