Quotes About Challenges

Not because she's a bad person or shallow or mean. But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

Math has never made any sense to me.

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway…

And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.

There is a lot to tell you about the last two weeks. A lot of it is good, but a lot of it is bad. Again, I don't know why this always happens.

Lucrurile se schimb?. Iar prietenii pleac?. ?i via?a nu se opre?te pentru nimeni

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Einstein

So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats

Birth of a Railroad

McGovern had other problems as well, personal ones with his

Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.

I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing. I'M NOT EVEN TONE FUCKING DEAF. I'm tone DUMB.

wisdom is the ability to cope

Agamemnon heaved the gusty sigh of one much put upon by the weight of office, the malice of chance, and the endless incompetence of underlings.

No creo que la especie humana haya llegado tan lejos sólo para eliminarse a sí misma cuando las cosas se están poniendo interesantes.

I was lucky to lose my voice at the beginning of the personal computing age.

Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation, over-population, disease, war, famine, lack of water and decimation of animal species; these are all solvable but so far have not been solved.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

developed only because of the lucky chance that there have been no major collisions in the last sixty-six million years. Other planets in the galaxy, on which life has developed, may not have had a long enough collision-free period to evolve intelligent beings.

If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don't give up. There is a way out.

En cierto modo, la especie humana necesita mejorar sus cualidades mentales y físicas para tratar con el mundo cada vez más complejo que lo rodea y afrontar nuevos desafíos como los viajes espaciales. Y también necesita aumentar su complejidad si los sistemas biológicos deben mantenerse por delante de los sistemas electrónicos. Por el momento, los ordenadores nos aventajan en velocidad, pero no muestran signos de inteligencia.

Extenderse al espacio tendrá un efecto aún mayor. Cambiará completamente el futuro de la especie humana, y tal vez determinará que tengamos o no algún futuro. No resolverá ninguno de nuestros problemas inmediatos en el planeta Tierra, pero nos proporcionará una nueva perspectiva sobre ellos y hará que miremos hacia fuera en lugar de hacia dentro. Con suerte, nos unirá para enfrentar el desafío común.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.