Renee James Quotes

Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

Renee James

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• Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Together
  • Law

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Always

• I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
  • Television
  • Personal

• 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

• My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Myself
  • Challenge
  • Working

• I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done

• I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

  

  Hal Linden
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Challenge
  • Artist
  • Look

• It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Today
  • Society
  • Challenge

• Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • Character
  • Me

• My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Dream
  • Model
  • Ambition

• The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to capture some stuff, to see if I could get it right. The way it feels to lose a loved one and find a reason to celebrate, oddly enough, as a result of learning who you are.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Learning
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Love
  • True
  • Dream

• It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Meaningful

• It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.

  

  Tony Orlando
  • Important
  • Realizing
  • Glory

• I've tried several diets over the past couple of years – not because I need to lose weight, but because my pants are trying to cut me in two.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Need
  • Lose
  • Weight

• Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

  

  Renee James
  • Challenge
  • Personal
  • Resilience