While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… It sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds—to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me...

When you allow yourself the abilityto challenge your doubts, to embraceyour deepest and darkest fears,that is when you learn how to bea healer and hero in your own life story~bns

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they...

What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

There was nothing to see in the room, but his brain pulled multiple vivid memories to the forefront of his mind. Entering the house as husband and wife, with Angela holding onto his arm. The...

Being a Muslim is not a joke but a challenge. If you think it is, come and live in Pakistan where you will know about Muslims’ enemies around the globe

…no way through it but through it,” I tell myself.

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren’t as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

The hardest thing about “everything happens for a reason” is waiting for that reason to show up.

We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to...

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...

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

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

It’s an obvious challenge, but the risk feels too big, the leap too grand, the future too unknown

He’s got things to do, places to be, realities to believe in. He can feel the phone he’s been told to keep switched off in this communication-free zone vibrating in his pocket and he thanks...

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

Pamper no temptations! Once you are the driver on the steer of your life, choose to knock down every obstacle and challenge on your way to fulfillment.

I grew up watching ‘Grease,’ and ‘Grease 2.’ I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I’d...

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

You can be all that you wish to be. Go for the challenge.

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it’s difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we...

Jeg ligger og kjender at jeg hader dette forbandede fjeld, fordi det har makt over mitt sind. Hvad vil du mig – at jeg er kommet de utalte mil fra en blidere egn for å...

The most challenging aspect of living is staying in your lane.

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know...

How did you act when all was not good? Did you rise to the challenge? Did you display grit, resilience, and integrity in your response? Character isn’t about being perfect or always doing the right...

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The...

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

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.

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

Don’t say NO for an answer

Life’s challenges are opportunities for personal growth.

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.

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

I’m going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I’d like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be...

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge… so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.

Writing software that’s safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.

It was about time she woke up to reality and realized that there was more to being a vampire than just feeding from blood.

Happiness is what happens when you build the level of awareness and courage to continuously identify, challenge, and replace your negative thoughts and beliefs.

I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don’t like kiss-asses and that you’d rather work with people challenging your perceptions.