Challenges Quotes - Page 98

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.

In every life there is a challenge. For every challenge that I take on, if I follow through, I accomplish. When I have accomplished, then I have achieved. If I achieve, than I can proudly say I did my job well.

I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

The first listen is very important to me. Half of my favorite records just hit you in the face immediately with something memorable and within three-and-a-half minutes you know you've heard something really special. I want to make records like that, but it's a big challenge.

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly about different businesses. So it's always a continuing learning experience where you can apply what you know, of course, by way of judgment and by way of numerical analysis. You're always investing in new businesses, which is a learning experience in itself. I think that is a wonderful thing and I think it makes for intellectual challenge and for continued personal growth. That, for me, is the highlight of this job.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.