Challenge Quotes
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It's always going to be a challenge to keep the strikeouts down with the personnel we have. We're trying to get those numbers down. But when you're scoring the most runs in the National League, I'll take that tradeoff.
Chris Chambliss
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The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
Marianne Williamson
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Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.
Jonathan Galassi
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It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment.
David Farrier
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Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
Barack Obama
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
Gaylord Nelson
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I try to focus on eating seasonally and organic whenever possible. It can be a challenge, but it has a huge effect on my weight, my health, and the environment.
Elle Macpherson
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Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home.
L. Tom Perry
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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.
Brian Henson
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I do think that it's a challenge for me or for anybody who has had certain iconic things happen to them in their career to re-engage people and say that there's still more to discover. And also to have that confidence in yourself that you still have more to bring.
Joan Osborne
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Making a film is a challenge.
Bennett Miller
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I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.
Christa Campbell
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In the green fields a turnin', a baby is born His cries crease the wind and mingle with the morn An assault upon the order, the changing of the guard Chosen for a challenge that is hopelessly hard And the only single sound is the sighing of the stars But to the silence and distance they are sworn.
Phil Ochs
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It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.
Kenan Thompson
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We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Anytime you get to go up against guys that have done well in this league, who have dominated in this league, you have got to rise to the challenge.
Doug Baldwin
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The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
John Barton
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I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.
Amy Smart
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Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.
Alexander Wang
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It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
Alisher Usmanov
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From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
Jimmy Reid
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If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.
Joseph Altuzarra
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How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.
Elizabeth Janeway
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I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.
Jennie Finch