Challenge Quotes
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Leading the coalition military effort during the surge in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was the most important endeavor - and greatest challenge - of my 37 years in uniform.
David Petraeus
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I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.
Amy Poehler
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Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
Bjarke Ingels
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There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.
John Darnielle
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You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.
Jamie Dornan
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.
Epictetus
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When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.
Dakota Fanning
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Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge.
Debra Searle
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The rerouting has been reasonably successful. The challenge is for us to get it repaired as quickly as possible.
Frank Keating
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The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
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I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real challenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith
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I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public.
Douglas Alexander
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Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.
Anne-Marie Duff
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If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.
Chuck Zito
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Now that we know what we're dealing with and what the reality is and the challenge is out there, there are some minds that are changing. The reality is, it is very difficult to try and schedule five non-conference football games every year.
Jeff Long
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
Peter Thiel
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A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
Marilyn Ferguson
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When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.
Colin Jost
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I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
Joanne Rowling
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When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
Colin Meloy
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You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.
Cenk Uygur
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It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team.
Phil Jackson
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In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.
Anand Sharma
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
Yann Martel