Quotes About Challenges

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

Life is an overwhelming bundle of loose threads. The ones you can hang on to are precious.

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.

Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined.

As populations continue to increase, and the climate continues to deteriorate, and as people flock in ever increasing numbers to large, underdeveloped cities, the threat of multiple protracted mega-emergencies has become reality.

America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor market and the threat that it poses to economic mobility. Rising to this challenge is not automatic. It's not costless. It's not easy. But it is feasible.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

Every game is different. Every opposition comes with a different threat.

I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.

I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.

President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.

As the threat to harm the United States and U.S. interests evolves, we must adapt and confront these challenges, relying heavily on the strength of our federal, state, local, and international partnerships.

The work of the FBI, to put it mildly, is complex and covers just about every threat we face.

When the physical threat of coronavirus subsides, as it surely will, we must address the impact to our mental health.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

As climate change moves from a model of the future to the reality of the present, health care systems across the country are facing a difficult set of questions. What are doctors supposed to do when wildfires, rising floodwater or other natural disasters threaten their ability to provide care for patients?

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.