Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Stefanie Powers

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

Sonia Sotomayor

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

Sonia Sotomayor

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Thomas Friedman

So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.

Thomas Jane

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Thomas Keating

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Raymond Arroyo

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

Victor Pinchuk

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

Victor Garber

Each person shows something different, in every challenge that they come across.

Salli Richardson

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

Russell Page

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

Russell M. Nelson

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

Sam Mendes

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.

Roy Blunt

One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.

Ron Perlman

I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.

Susan Cain

Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I always expect unexpected challenges.

Stockwell Day

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

Stephen Schwartz

Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.

Stephen Graham Jones

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.

Mother Teresa

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

Pema Chodron

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

Pema Chodron

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

Peter Russell

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

Pedro Martinez

I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.

Pedro Almodovar

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.

Puff Daddy

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Selena Gomez

Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing.

Scarlett Johansson

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

Sharan Burrow

Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.