Quotes About Daunting

Im quite a family-orientated person, so being over here in a foreign country - by myself - for the first time with a big new job was daunting.

proved daunting to the crew. They left most of the planks behind, and after four wretched days of marching overland

You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.

George, though, brings back some daunting intelligence after a September 1963 visit to Benton, Illinois, where his sister, Louise, lives. "They don't know us," he reports. "It's going

The kid is scary.

We are witnessing the physical and mental response, including amazement and reverence and curiosity, to an epiphany. Only the Virgin seems still, the calm in the vortex. Portraying the swirl of characters was a daunting task, perhaps too much so. Each had to have a unique pose and set of emotions. As Leonardo later wrote in his notebook, "Do not repeat the same movements in the same figure, be it limbs, hands or fingers, nor should the same pose be repeated in one narrative painting.

Keith 'One Time' Thurman is a dangerous man.

Although she can function extraordinarily well in other roles, mothering is the single most daunting task for the borderline female.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks.

He'd make Cujo hang his head in poser shame.

Pat and I, of course, could barely grasp that the Diana who'd been Patrick's beloved nanny three short months ago was destined to be the next queen of England. What a leap! From the nursery to the palace. Positively daunting.

to capture those momentous events in print seemed as daunting to Mercy as was the triumph of the Revolution itself.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.