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Challenge Quotes

"Every single book is a challenge."

"Every single book is a challenge."

Nora Roberts, American Author

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

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

Steve Nash, Canadian Athlete

Challenge, Play

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"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."

"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."

Jan Egeland, Norwegian Public Servant

Challenge, Nothing, Sense

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"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."

"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."

William Henry Ashley, American Businessman

Challenge, Boats

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

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

Jesse Helms, American Politician

Challenge, Principles, Sight, Trouble

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"The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge."

"The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge."

Nigel Mansell, British Athlete

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

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

John C. Reilly, American Actor

Challenge, Skill

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

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

Colin Powell, American Statesman

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"When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?"

"When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?"

Richie Norton, American Author

Challenge, Limit, Truth, Courage, Freedom

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"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."

"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."

Ron Jaworski, American Athlete

Challenge, Coaches

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"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."

"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."

Howard Baker, American Statesman

Challenge, Emotion, Facts, Negotiation

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"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."

"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."

Kevin Conroy, American Actor

Challenge, Illusion, Knight

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"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."

"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."

Ed Harris, American Actor

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"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."

"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."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

Challenge, Fighting, World

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

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

Hal Borland, American Author

Challenge, Ideology

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"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."

"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."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

Challenge, Obstacles, Overcoming

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

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

David Brin, American Author

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"Most men will not swim before they are able to."

"Most men will not swim before they are able to."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Challenge, Men, Ability, Learning, Fear

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"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."

"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."

Esther Dyson, American Scientist

Challenge, Freedom, Responsibility

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"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."

"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."

Paul Ryan, American Politician

Challenge, Country, Crisis, Debt

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

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

John Barton, Canadian Poet

Challenge, Reading

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

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

Sarah Polley, Canadian Actress

Challenge, Open

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

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

Chuck Zito, American Celebrity

Challenge, Fight

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

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

Anne Perry, British Novelist

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

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

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"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."

"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."

Charlie Watts, British Musician

Challenge, Years

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"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."

"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."

William O. Douglas, American Judge

Challenge, Quiet, Word

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"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."

"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."

Geezer Butler, English Musician

Challenge, Sabbath

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"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court."

"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court."

Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian Athlete

Challenge, Court, Present

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"I used to not back down from a challenge."

"I used to not back down from a challenge."

Elizabeth Moon, American Author

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"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."

"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."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Challenge, Freedom, Man, Nationalism

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"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials."

"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials."

Helen Frankenthaler, American Artist

Challenge, Difficulty, Learning, Problems

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

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

Justin Timberlake, American Musician

Challenge, Songs

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"Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."

"Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Challenge, Struggle, Life, Events, Emotion

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

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

Dennis Rodman, American Athlete

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"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."

"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."

Ty Cobb, American Athlete

12

"It was a challenge to my teammates to help me."

"It was a challenge to my teammates to help me."

Wilt Chamberlain, American Athlete

Challenge, Help

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"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."

"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."

Gale Norton, American Public Servant

Challenge, Environment, Needs, Trying

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"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."

"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."

John Hume, Irish Politician

Challenge, Class, Fashion, Living, Politicians

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

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

Dinah Sheridan, English Actress

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"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."

"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."

Marilyn Hacker, American Poet

Challenge, English, First

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"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."

"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

Challenge, Difficulties, Existence, Order

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

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

Davy Jones, English Musician

Challenge, Years

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"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."

"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."

Colin Mochrie, Scottish Actor

Challenge, Nothing, Right, Trying

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"I think the tougher the challenge the better."

"I think the tougher the challenge the better."

Jim Otto, American Athlete

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

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

Joel Coen, American Director

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

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

Tom Selleck, American Actor

Challenge, Risk

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

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

Adrian Lyne, English Director

Challenge, Film, Moments

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"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."

"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."

Amy Smart, American Actress

Challenge, Want

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"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."

"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."

William Bennett, American Politician

Challenge, Difficulty, Trying, Will

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