Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

China Mieville

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Charlize Theron

You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes [not]. That's the challenge of the job.

Charlize Theron

In life we want to challenge ourselves.

We are pleased with our first-quarter results, particularly in view of the strength of last year's performance, ... We remain comfortable that we are well-positioned to meet near-term economic and competitive challenges, and deliver reasonable growth in earnings per share for the full year.

There are challenges in trying to sell a facility you don't have plans for.

There are challenges here. The good news is that we now have a system to identify them.

There are some challenges in the future that make it harder to do waste-to-energy, so we're going to have to wrestle with a few of those things.

William Shakespeare

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.

Mark Cuban

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

Edmund Hillary

There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done.There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now.

Eckhart Tolle

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

We have a severe fire in one of those carriages, with tremendous devastation in there, ... And we face some considerable challenges as far as identification of the numbers who are in there and the identification of anything that remains in there.

We have had to get innovative. We are going through that growing period where we are having to meet some pretty stiff challenges to do the good job we have always done.

Bruce Beresford

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Bruce Beresford

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

Brian Greene

General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that's been the big challenge and that's why we have been excited about string theory, as it's one of the only approaches that can put it together.

Brett Lee

It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing.

Ben Nelson

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

Nancy Lieberman

Were having challenges because we're expecting 300 children at a site and right now we only have 13 signed up.

James Frey

This program provides critical resources to new parents experiencing not only the joys but also the challenges of a new baby.

Beah Richards

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Bruce Springsteen

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Brian Setzer

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

Brian Tracy

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

Brian Henson

So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

Brian Henson

The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.

Brad Meltzer

In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

Jane D. Hull

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

Jamie Bell

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

James Tate

The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

James E. Faust

While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.