Challenges Quotes - Page 33

I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too, and they feel very put out if they are left in the cold, so there we have it. We have me who has lots of ideas and then we have a very good team who wish - who are persuaded almost - to take part in these challenges.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the movie, and the size and scope of the movie. Pineapple Express was a great success, and that was something that we wanted to capitalize on, but we wanted this movie to be bigger, more adventuresome, bring a bigger audience to the movie, and challenge ourselves to do something new.

If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.

If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.

Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.