Facing Challenges Quotes

You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and apprehending them, using to the fullest the tools you have been taught, until they shatter in your hands and you are left in the midst of wreckage absolute ... I cannot create masters. I have never known how to create masters. Go, then, and fail ... You have been shaped into something that may emerge from the wreckage, determined to remake your Art. I cannot create masters, but if you had not been taught, your chances would be less. The higher road begins after the Art seems to fail you; though the reality will be that it was you who failed your Art. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Sometimes life will be awesome. Sometimes, life will look blurry. Along the way in the journey of life, sometimes, life will be colder than warmer and sometimes warmer than colder but in all things we must remember that it is never over for a purposeful journey of life until the journey of life is over. Be it rough or smooth, good or bad, we must accomplish the task. It shall always not be good and it shall always not be bad; we only have to work hard. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I simply am going to look you in the eye and say that if the United States hopes to remain a major player among nations, facing challenges such as poverty, inadequate education, and global market competition, we're going to need to draw deeply from our entire talent pool, not just half of it. ~ Kathy Cloninger

one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Often there's a secret courage hidden in the pocket of our deepest fears saying, "Bring it on, motherfucker". ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you ~ Munia Khan

Sharks don't eat fish because of anything the fish do. They don't eat fish because those fish aren't good enough fish, or because those fish aren't nice enough to the sharks. Sharks eat fish because they are sharks. ~ Drenda Keesee

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges. ~ Paulo Coelho

It is sometimes hard to be a family. ~ Maurice Sendak

That sense of inferiority is just another word for fear. And fear is simply the self-deception that you are about to be separated from the thing you most value. ~ Drenda Keesee

He who doesn't want to face his or her challenges shall always face challenges! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No one is born brave; one needs to learn to muster courage - On the Birth of Character ~ Lamine Pearlheart

Leaders devoid of crucible experiences are likely to be overly confident about their ideas, and surprisingly more susceptible to fears; this is also true of children who are overly sheltered from facing challenges and experiences that help build their character. Courageously facing our fears in the difficult times gives us both humility and real confidence. ~ Lee Ellis

Modern Western readers immediately focus on (and often bristle at) the word "submit," because for us it touches the controversial issue of gender roles. But to start arguing about that is a mistake that will be fatal to any true grasp of Paul's introductory point. He is declaring that everything he is about to say about marriage assumes that the parties are being filled with God's Spirit. Only if you have learned to serve others by the power of the Holy Spirit will you have the power to face the challenges of marriage. ~ Timothy J. Keller

One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion. ~ Sarah Dessen

Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment. ~ Quentin L. Cook

Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.
Don't spread patriotism too thin. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Challenges are what will make us stronger. ~ Zainab Alsaati

When the lifestyle of a social group becomes obsolete, when work turns into a boring routine and community responsibilities lose their meaning, it is likely that leisure will become increasingly more important. And if a society becomes too dependent on entertainment, it is likely that there will be less psychic energy left to cope creatively with the technological and economic challenges that will inevitably arise. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Facing problems is like looking at a sink piled up with dirty dishes. More you think more they stink. It takes only to roll up the sleeves and start washing them, one by one. In just ten minutes they are done. ~ Vinko Vrbanic

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it. ~ Denise Austin

If heaven may be found here and now, then heaven cannot be merely found in the absence of struggle as most of us assume, but in the very heart of our struggles. If Jesus' message is true, then our deepest challenges may offer our most profound opportunities. Heaven is found in the Dark Wood! ~ Eric Elnes

When I opened the gate, I found myself facing Avi Keinan, CEO of the "Treasures of the Dead Sea" factory, accompanied by Ricki, head of the administration department; both have been working with my husband Kobi for many years. Every time they came to town and had some time to kill between two meetings, they dropped by for a quick coffee. ~ Dalia Rosenfeld

Life is like facing two mirrors at each other: There is no beginning, no end. Just the beauty within the reflected infinity ~ Michael Biondi

Joseph Pine wrote that today's economy is an "experience economy", meaning that customers want more than a good product or service; they want to enjoy the experience of using a product or service, which begins with their first interaction with a company. So if, in spite of all your customer-service training and "customer-facing" procedures, policies, and scripts, customers aren't feeling the love, you're in trouble. Love? Yes. ~ Susan Scott

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet. ~ Jean Chretien

drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges. ~ Ed Silvoso

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong
these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers. ~ Peter Drucker

Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it. ~ Kim Wilde

Society, in which we all live, is corrupt, immoral, aggressive, destructive. This society has been going on in primitive or modified form for thousands of years upon thousands of years, but it is the same pattern being repeated. These are all facts, not opinion or judgment. Facing this enormous crisis, one asks not only what one is to do but also who is responsible, who has brought the chaos, the confusion, the utter misery of humanity. Is the economic crisis, the social crisis, the crisis of war, the building of enormous armaments, the appalling waste, outside of us? Inwardly, psychologically, we are also very confused; there is constant conflict, struggle, pain, anxiety.

We are together taking a journey into the whole structure that mankind has created, the disorder that human beings have brought about in this world. There is misery, chaos, confusion outwardly in society; and also inwardly, psychologically, in the psyche, the consciousness, there are pain and struggles. What are you going to do about all this? Turn to leaders, better politicians? This one isn't good, but the next one will be better; and the next one still better. We keep this game going. We have looked to various so-called spiritual leaders, the whole hierarchy of the Christian world. They are as confused, as uncertain, as we are. If you turn to the psychologists or the psychotherapists, they are confused like you and me.

And there are all the ideologies: communist ideologies, Marxis ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

We may not realize it when we are facing them, but obstacles that we face and overcome only make us stronger. ~ Amey Hegde

Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all. ~ Mary Catherine Bateson

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery. ~ David Morrissey

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity. ~ Chris Noth

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details of strange flying craft seen over territories of the Soviet Union. This is a serious challenge to science and we need the help of all Soviet citizens. ~ Felix Ziegel

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me. ~ Scarlett Johansson

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun. ~ Matt Ross

The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including environmental challenges. Hence, this multi-disciplinary programme from NUS could not be more timely. It meets a pressing need to educate, train and empower leading players in the public, private and civil society sectors in Singapore, Asia and the world. ~ Kishore Mahbubani

Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine. ~ Steven Magee

I'll become stronger by purposely facing what I am afraid of. It's OK that I'm anxious right now. I can handle these sensations. I can handle this uncertainty. I want this anxiety. I want this uncertainty. Love the mat. Run toward the roar. ~ R. Reid Wilson

No matter the challenges that befalls you in life, never ever forget who you are". ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The only way to live in this life, is to love this life. ~ Bert McCoy

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge. ~ Albert Camus

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film. ~ Anne Heche

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. ~ Julian Schnabel

In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself. ~ Cameron Dokey

I don't understand all the nuances of the women's movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem. ~ Winona LaDuke

Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring. ~ Vitali Klitschko

I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win." ~ Robert Cheeke

I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out. ~ Michael Scott