Challenges Quotes - Page 142

I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk into an audition, you have more to say for yourself because you come from the real world. It's more enticing for directors, I think.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

There's always challenges to everything.

The security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process.

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.

Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

We also have to recognize, in addition to the challenges that we face with policing, there are so many good, brave police officers who equally want reform.

But let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do.

No human being is immune to adversity or personal setbacks.

At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.

There is no nation on the planet better able to adapt to this change than our nation. We must able to work collaboratively with others. We must anticipate these threats before they happen. This is the new sort of challenge, the new sort of threat that does, in fact, require new thinking, fresh approaches and new leadership.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.