Bob Schieffer Quotes

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

Bob Schieffer

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• I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Today
  • Hate
  • Challenge

• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Father
  • College
  • Challenge

• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Government

• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Different
  • Long
  • Night

• I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.

  

  Raekwon
  • History
  • Man
  • Challenge

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. While anyone is free to be an anti-Muslim bigot, on campus or off, CAIR is free to challenge their bigotry by speaking out against the promotion of hatred and intolerance.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Strong

• There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

  

  La India
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Challenge

• I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Challenge
  • Independent

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• On one level, we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they'll be an echo in the mic. It's like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Baby
  • Professional

• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Identity
  • Achievement
  • Recognition

• 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Cut my cote after my cloth.

  

  John Heywood

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

  

  Bob Schieffer
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