Quotes About Challenges

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.