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Challenge Quotes


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


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


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


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


"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?"


"Everything new requires determination and courage from a person."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."


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


"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."


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


"To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly."


"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper."


"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!"


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


"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."
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