Quotes on challenge

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Author: Lynn Abbey

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Author: Berenice Abbott

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Author: Andre Agassi

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

Author: Andre Agassi

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

Author: Jessica Alba

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.

Author: Debbie Allen

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

Author: Harry Anderson

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

Author: Howard Baker

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Author: Christian Bale

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

Author: Roy Barnes

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

Author: John Barton

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.

Author: Greg Bear

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

Author: William Bennett

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Author: Jan Bont

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Author: Hal Borland

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Author: Richard Branson

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

Author: Terry Brennan

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Author: Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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

Author: David Brin

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.

Author: Dick Butkus

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

Author: Geezer Butler

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Author: Gabriel Byrne

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.

Author: Wilt Chamberlain

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

Author: Raymond Chandler

Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.

Author: John Clayton

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Author: Kurt Cobain

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

Author: Ty Cobb

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

Author: Joel Coen

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

Author: James Coleman

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

Author: Sean Connery

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.

Author: Kevin Conroy

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Author: Rita Coolidge

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

Author: John Corigliano

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

Author: Tom Cruise

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

Author: Jeffery Deaver

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.

Author: Gail Devers

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

Author: William Douglas

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.

Author: Esther Dyson

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Author: Marian Edelman

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

Author: Jan Egeland

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Author: Philip Emeagwali

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

Author: Barbara Feldon

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

Author: Suzanne Fields

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

Author: Joseph Fiennes

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

Author: Michael Finley

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

Author: Alan Foster

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

Author: Jim Fowler

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

Author: Marc Garneau

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

Author: Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Author: Antonio Gramsci

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Author: Richard Grant

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.

Author: Dante Hall

If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

Author: Ed Harris

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Author: Jesse Helms

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Author: Martin Henderson

I have always liked a challenge.

Author: Damon Hill

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

Author: Earl Hines

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

Author: Dustin Hoffman

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Author: Lou Holtz

The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.

Author: John Hull

But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.

Author: John Hutton

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

Author: Ron Jaworski

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

Author: Davy Jones

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

Author: Regina King

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

Author: Richard King

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

Author: Richard Krajicek

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

Author: Ted Levine

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

Author: Joe Lieberman

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Author: Hal Linden

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

Author: Alex Lowe

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Author: Bela Lugosi

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

Author: Adrian Lyne

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.

Author: Humphrey Lyttelton

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

Author: Lee Majors

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

Author: Nigel Mansell

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

Author: Josie Maran

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Author: Andrea Martin

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

Author: Harry Mathews

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

Author: Sarah McLachlan

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Author: Sam Mendes

I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

Author: Colin Mochrie

I used to not back down from a challenge.

Author: Elizabeth Moon

Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.

Author: Steve Nash

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Author: Gale Norton

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Author: Solomon Ortiz

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

Author: Jim Otto

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Author: Pope Paul II

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

Author: Anne Perry

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

Author: Bernadette Peters

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Author: Tom Peters

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

Author: Sarah Polley

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Author: Colin Powell

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

Author: Dan Quayle

I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

Author: John Reilly

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Author: Anne Rice

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.

Author: Tim Rice

I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.

Author: Michael Ritchie

Every single book is a challenge.

Author: Nora Roberts

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Author: Dennis Rodman

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Author: Robert Rodriguez

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

Author: Tim Roth

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

Author: Dave Rowntree

Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.

Author: Paul Ryan

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Author: Alberto Salazar

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Author: Margaret Sanger

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Author: Greta Scacchi

Differences challenge assumptions.

Author: Anne Schaef

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

Author: Bob Schieffer

Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.

Author: Ron Schiller

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Author: Brian Schweitzer

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

Author: Tom Selleck

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Author: Ayrton Senna

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

Author: Brian Setzer

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

Author: John Sexton

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

Author: Shakira

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

Author: Dinah Sheridan

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!

Author: Brian Sibley

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

Author: Amy Smart

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

Author: Claus Stauffenberg

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

Author: Leigh Steinberg

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

Author: Peter Straub

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Author: Julie Taymor

Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge.

Author: John Thompson

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Author: John Thorn

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

Author: Justin Timberlake

I've always loved a challenge.

Author: Lana Turner

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

Author: Wietse Venema

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

Author: Vera Wang

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

Author: Charlie Watts

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Author: William Webster

During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.

Author: Jeanne Welles

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Author: Boris Yeltsin

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

Author: Paula Zahn

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

Author: Chuck Zito

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

Author: John Zorn

Life is a puzzle with no fixed solution, the beauty lies in creating your own masterpiece.

Author: Olivia Bennett

Embrace discomfort, for within it lies our greatest opportunities for growth.

Author: Gabrielle Rivera

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do.

Author: Alexandria Reyes

The impossible is just a mindset waiting to be challenged.

Author: Samantha Brown

Embrace uncertainty as a companion on your journey to greatness.

Author: Jasmine Greene