Challenge Quotes

• For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Great
  • Education
  • Growth

• At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

  

  Arthur Frommer
  • Challenge
  • Travel
  • Views

• Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Drinking

• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Motivational

• I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

  

  Marc Forster
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Challenge

• I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.

  

  Ben Brantley
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Romantic

• When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

  

  Pollyanna Chu
  • Career
  • Challenge

• My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Church
  • Challenge

• If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Different
  • History
  • Moment

• The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

  

  Cleveland Amory
  • Support
  • Challenge
  • Husband

• The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Actually, the challenge I’ve always had is being too thin, so I love that now I have a booty, and obviously I love showing my cleavage.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Challenges
  • Booty
  • Cleavage

• No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  

  Brooke Ellison
  • Challenge
  • Face
  • Adversity

• It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Challenges
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Man
  • Challenge

• For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Knowledge
  • Spirit
  • Minds

• The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Culture
  • Challenge
  • Vision

• While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Moral

• And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • Done
  • Challenge

• Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • True

• It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a real challenge. I thought, "How am I going to pull off this character?" But, I also thought, "Oh, man, I'm going to go for it." He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.

  

  John Krasinski
  • People
  • Challenge

• One thing I try to avoid in my films are effects that have a CG 'look' to them. The challenge is never let the audience get distracted by thinking that they're watching something made in a computer.

  

  Jonathan Mostow
  • Thinking
  • Challenge

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