Quotes About Self-challenge

The process of voluntary self-limitation and self-challenge bears the name tapas in Sanskrit, which means literally "heat" or "glow." The ancient sages (rishi) pointed to the Solar Being as the primary practitioner of tapas and in fact as the originator of Yoga.

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other...

By creating a feedback culture within your office, you ensure that people continue to learn, grow, and challenge themselves.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

You have goals every time you play a game. Why not set goals before each practice. Make practice your own game, against yourself - and win it!

I am my best enemy.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

I am at war with my own mind.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.