Selected challenge quotes

1. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

2. I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

3. Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

4. I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.

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

6. This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

7. I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

8. An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

9. If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

10. Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

11. No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

12. While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

13. From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

14. No one conquers who doesn't fight.

15. My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

16. She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

17. The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

18. I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

19. Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

20. I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

21. No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

22. I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

23. Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

24. What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

25. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

26. 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.

27. People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

28. O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

29. No pressure, no diamonds.

30. I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

31. We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

32. [S]ome kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

33. Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.'

34. Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

35. When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the pace.

36. Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

37. 'Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.'

38. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

39. The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

40. All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I'm always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.

41. It's important to scare yourself, to do things you don't think you're capable of doing.

42. Just bring it!

43. When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.

44. Every day I learn something. Sometimes it's difficult. Especially when I have to do something that I don't normally do. Of course that's just acting.

45. Hi, I'm Alton Brown here in Kitchen Stadium, the culinary coliseum where the only ingredient that isn't allowed is FEAR. Well, that, and those little containers of yogurt they give you on airplanes that always blow up in your face? Oh, and mothballs. We frown on those, too. Anyway! Are you ready for some down and dirty deep-fried fisticuffs? I know I am!

46. If all people want is to see something they understand, they shouldn't go to the theater. They should go to the bathroom.

47. It's like taking a five hour final examination.

48. Prince : How about you and your friends, versus me...and the Revolution.

49. The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not what they think it is. (Ch. 10)

50. How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. : Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.

51. Just so The Rock understands this, you're the WCW Champion Sucker?

52. Rock: 'I tell you what - who's your boy standing in the middle of the ring?'

53. You stand now, before The Rock, looking at The Rock, gawking at The Rock, wanting to go one-on-one with 'The Great One?' And now, in front of all The Rock's fans, you want to serve The Rock a great, big piece of that poontang pie?

54. You think you impress the Rock?

55. You wanna go one on one with the Great One?

56. With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it. If you see an attractive person, you will find that self-restraint is the ability you have against your desire. If you are in pain, you will find fortitude. If you hear unpleasant language, you will find patience. And thus habituated, the appearances of things will not hurry you away along with them. (10)

57. You must understand that ordinary efforts do not count; only superefforts count.

58. The first night, a rock, big as two fists. The second, a rock big as three. But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed. (Though oaken as man could be.) The third night, a silvery ring of glass. Patience arched to endure, But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood Was staining her gaze so pure.

59. I think my escape from the Siberian Transport was my most difficult performance. I was placed in the great vault usually assigned to political prisoners, and when the great door was shut, I had the hardest time of my life, perhaps, in releasing myself. But nevertheless, it took me 18 minutes to walk out, and face the dazed officials.

60. I think young people ought to seek that experience that is going to knock them off center.

61. Hell, Chuck Yeager could do it in his sleep while on fire, I'm sure.

62. The point and stab of his challenge still really stands and sticks, like a dagger in a dead man.

63. The Lookout was by far the hardest thing I've ever done. Partially because both Brick and Mysterious Skin were four to five week shoots, and The Lookout was nine or ten. So there's the marathon aspect, as well as the fact that Chris Pratt is having a harder go of it than either of the other two characters ever did. You know, waking up in the morning is difficult for him. Putting a sentence together is difficult for him. Getting dressed properly, driving a car, all these things. He can do them fine, but it's just much harder than it is for a normal person, so I had to try to make it hard for myself somehow. So it was challenging.

64. If I only could Be running up that hill With no problems...

65. There must be things in life that you can never master. Golf is one of them.

66. last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&$1ge$1&&$1lt$2' That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-)

67. Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch.

68. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.

69. The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.

70. God gets the greatest glory when we attack the greatest giants.

71. Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!

72. In this entire century the Democratic Party has never been invested with power on the basis of a program which promised to keep things as they were. We have won when we pledged to meet the new challenges of each succeeding year. We have triumphed not in spite of controversy, but because of it; not because we avoided problems, but because we faced them. We have won, not because we bent and diluted our principles, but because we stood fast to the ideals which represent the most noble and generous portion of the American spirit.

73. [Slurring drunkenly] You do not know shit about fuck, my man. You want a piece of yourself? Step outside, I'll kick my ass.

74. An excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.

75. Islam has said everything, but the difficulty rests with the Muslims.

76. When I asked God for intelligence He Gave Me Puzzles to Solve.

77. I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.

78. 'If you ask any of the women we've worked with, some of them would say it's a very tough journey, but I don't think any of them would say we'd been patronising.

79. Thanks for the information Never give a sucker an even break When he's breaking through To a new level of consciousness There always seems to be more Obstacles in the way Thanks for the information I know It's only a combat zone Thanks for the memory, I'll just have To carry on on my own.

80. 'You wanna humiliate me?! Huh?! Look at me! You did this! You did this! Well you may have not lost your ECW Title, but it will be on the line at Backlash when it will be Bobby Lashley versus Umaga versus Shane McMahon versus VINCENT KENNEDY McMAHON! The ECW Championship comes to the McMahons!'

81. Variant: We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity.

82. Who equals him in earnestness? Who equals him in eloquence? Who equals him in courage and fidelity to his convictions? If these gentlemen who say they will not follow him have anyone who is equal, let them show him. If they can point out any statesman who can add dignity and grandeur to the stature of Mr. Gladstone, let them produce him!

83. It's not too far it just seems like it is.

84. 'Undertaker, do you think you impress The Rock by coming out here with your little Undertaker symbol and claim to steal the souls of all those jabronis? Do you think you impress The Rock by taking your eyes and rolling them up into the back of your head? Well, The Rock says, if you really wanna impress The Rock, then you will come to King of the Ring and you will put the WWF Title on the line and go one on one with the Great One! And Undertaker, when the Great One's music hits: 'Do you smell what The Rock is cooking', and 20,000 asses are standing on their feet with goosebumps running through their body, all chanting The Rock's name, 'Rocky, Rocky'' *crowd starts chanting his name* 'then, Undertaker, you bring your monkey ass to the people's ring and you come and you try to sacrifice The People's Champ. But here's the twist: instead, Undertaker, of taking your eyes and rolling them up into the back of your head, The Rock says that take your entire thirty-three pound head, turn it backwards like The Exorcist, have it roll down your back, catch it with both your hands. And then, Undertaker, The Rock says, take your own head and proceed to shove it directly up your candy ass!'

85. 'At times those who do not want to have their inconsistencies pointed out say in a super-sweet voice to me 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' I reply 'O.K., judge me, then.''

86. Marcia: Hayley, I congratulate you from a singers point of view because that's a very hard song to sing. George are the bomb. You did a great job.

87. Dicko: The mountain was too high, the river too deep. Cabaret.

88. 'You wanna a piece of me?!'

89. Just bring it!

90. It is not easy to remain motivated in the face of widespread apathy and self-indulgence.

91. 'Undertaker, do you think you impress The Rock by coming out here with your little Undertaker symbol and claim to steal the souls of all those jabronis? Do you think you impress The Rock by taking your eyes and rolling them up into the back of your head? Well, The Rock says, if you really wanna impress The Rock, then you will come to King of the Ring and you will put the WWF Title on the line and go one on one with the Great One! And Undertaker, when the Great One's music hits: 'Do you smell what The Rock is cooking', and 20,000 asses are standing on their feet with goosebumps running through their body, all chanting The Rock's name, 'Rocky, Rocky'' *crowd starts chanting his name* 'then, Undertaker, you bring your monkey ass to the people's ring and you come and you try to sacrifice The People's Champ. But here's the twist: instead, Undertaker, of taking your eyes and rolling them up into the back of your head, The Rock says that take your entire thirty-three pound head, turn it backwards like The Exorcist, have it roll down your back, catch it with both your hands. And then, Undertaker, The Rock says, take your own head and proceed to shove it directly up your candy ass!'

92. Except for times Fred worked with real professional dancers like Cyd Charisse, it was a twenty five year war

93. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare! Scared from the corn, and now to some lone seat Retired-

94. ...I challenge you to another match, where there are no rules, no disqualification, and there are no excuses. You and me... at wrestlemania... in a Hardcore Match!!!

95. Yesterday it was a challenge. Today it wasn't

96. Kiss that frog, lady kiss that frog Get wet, get wet

97. In a day when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path

98. Oh yah Mobb Deep (uhh)/You wanna fuck with us/You Little young ass mutha-fuckas

99. Why perpetrate like you can handle my team?/So merciless that my attack'll take command of your dreams

100. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.