Challenges Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 17, 2024
‘Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.’ – Kobe Bryant
‘Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.’ – Chantal Sutherland
‘Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space. Don’t be afraid of the challenges, the missteps, and the setbacks along the way. What matters is that you keep going.’ – Kendra Scott
‘Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.’ – George S. Patton
‘If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.’ – Pat Riley
‘If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.’ – Jonny Kim
‘You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.’ – Michelle Obama
‘No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.’ – Alana Stewart
‘There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.’ – Amy Morin
‘Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.’ – Les Brown
‘Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.’ – Butch Hartman
‘Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.’ – Stephen Covey
‘Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.’ – David Rockwell
‘We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.’ – Victoria Arlen
‘Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges,’ which require global solidarity.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.’ – John C. Maxwell
‘Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.’ – Anna Lindh
‘Even when life challenges us, it’s a gift beyond all measure.’ – Parker Palmer
‘Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada
‘We rise to challenges, we will meet them, we’re well prepared for them, we’ll get through them and we’ll emerge on the other side stronger.’ – Rishi Sunak
‘I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.’ – Drake
‘Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.’ – Sonia Gandhi
‘It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.’ – Muhammad Ali
‘I am a teacher. It’s how I define myself. A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That’s the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it’ll have to do a lot with teaching.’ – Justin Trudeau
‘I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them… and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.’ – Wayne Messam
‘You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.’ – Jerry Seinfeld
‘I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.’ – Neil Armstrong
‘The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.’ – John Lasseter
‘The biggest lessons I learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges – when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned.’ – Michelle Kwan
‘We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.’ – Barack Obama
‘Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.’ – Marilu Henner
‘The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.’ – Daniel Kahneman
‘The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.’ – Warren Bennis
‘I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don’t always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.’ – Jennifer Hyman
‘Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don’t get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.’ – Damian Lillard
‘Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.’ – Angelina Jolie
‘By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.’ – Mark Rober
‘We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.’ – Tim Berners-Lee
‘People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don’t challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.’ – Thomas Frey
‘There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.’ – John C. Mather
‘Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.’ – Bernice Johnson Reagon
‘I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.’ – Shakira
‘While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.’ – Edmund Hillary
‘We in the U.A.E. have no such word as ‘impossible’; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.’ – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
‘Sometimes the hurdles aren’t really hurdles at all. They’re welcome challenges, tests.’ – Paul Walker
‘That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.’ – Nyjah Huston
‘Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.’ – John McCain
‘In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.’ – James E. Faust
‘Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.’ – Nelson Mandela
‘After two years working with bitcoin and blockchain companies and corporate leaders, we identified that a significant issue hindering the widespread, global adoption of blockchain is the inability to quickly connect with the right combination of partners for testing and deployment of the technology to address real-world business challenges.’ – Meltem Demirors
‘Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.’ – Cicely Tyson
‘Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.’ – Harrison Ford
‘The intention behind the high difficulty of the games I direct is to evoke a feeling of joy and accomplishment in the player when they overcome these challenges.’ – Hidetaka Miyazaki
‘I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.’ – Miranda Kerr
‘Life is full of challenges and surprises.’ – Jil Sander
‘We’ve definitely had our share of ups and downs as a group, and there were times we’ve faced some pretty big challenges, but we were able to get through these times, which allowed our bond to grow stronger.’ – Lee Tae-min
‘Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.’ – Stephen Schwartz
‘It’s easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.’ – Bethany Hamilton
‘Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.’ – James Broughton
‘There’s an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You’ve got the skills. You’ve got the knowledge. You’ve got the love, and you’re capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself.’ – Gene Kranz
‘We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies… that is undesirable.’ – Jose Angel Gurria
‘Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.’ – Rick Ross
‘What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.’ – Paulo Coelho
‘There’s going to be different kinds of challenges on a yearly basis. You’re going to have to overcome injuries, or you overcome a playoff loss or what have you. So there’s always challenges in this business.’ – Jeff Fisher
‘I don’t care who you are, life has challenges.’ – Tom Cruise
‘Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based set of international relations, based on the rule of law and in accordance with the U.N. Charter.’ – Antonio Guterres
‘There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.’ – Mia Hamm
‘You come up against challenges in life, and it’s how you deal with them that defines you.’ – Harry Kane
‘The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today’s intellectual challenges.’ – Nicholas A. Christakis
‘The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.’ – Bette Davis
‘No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.’ – Tom Watson
‘Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.’ – Billy Graham
‘Millennials are more aware of society’s many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.’ – Michael Porter
‘Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.’ – Jo Bonner
‘Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.’ – Brendon Burchard
‘When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.’ – T. B. Joshua
‘Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.’ – Roger Ebert
‘A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.’ – Marcel Proust
‘You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way – challenges, roadblocks – don’t let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.’ – Rose Namajunas
‘If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.’ – Iris Apfel
‘It’s the only – one thing I’ve learned in the labor movement is solidarity. We can only overcome the challenges if we stand together.’ – Marty Walsh
‘Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.’ – Thurgood Marshall
‘Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.’ – Josh Turner
‘Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘Life is short, and nobody knows what’s around the corner, but I’m up for lots of new challenges.’ – Ashley Roberts
‘With a fixed mindset, you’re so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don’t take on challenges. You don’t try new things.’ – Carol S. Dweck
‘Man, I got to say I love my haters because they challenge myself… it challenges me. It challenges me to be better. It challenges me to show who I am and that I deserve to be who I am.’ – Cris Cyborg
‘I’m officially disabled, but I’m truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.’ – Nick Vujicic
‘I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it’s the first time – with a beginner’s mind and an amateur’s love.’ – Willem Dafoe
‘If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.’ – Ralph Marston
‘Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.’ – Mark Frauenfelder
‘For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.’ – Joe Biden
‘I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn’t have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing – I’m a much better person for them.’ – Gladys Knight
‘Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.’ – Liu Xiang
‘If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.’ – Ratan Tata
‘My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.’ – Richard Branson
‘Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.’ – Margaret Spellings
‘Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don’t even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.’ – Annie Lennox
‘I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.’ – DeRay Mckesson
‘Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.’ – Isaac Hanson
‘It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They’re all there for you. We’re willing those to you. Are you ready?’ – John Morgridge
‘The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.’ – Paul Polman
‘It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don’t run from challenges because that’s more comfortable and convenient.’ – Bryan Stevenson
‘In today’s interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.’ – Michelle Bachelet
‘Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it’s constantly seeking out new challenges. But what’s really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.’ – John Hagel III
‘Doing the same old thing every day, week in and week out, it gets boring. I’m all about new challenges, new opponents.’ – CM Punk
‘Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is – sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is – has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you’re too close to see the whole thing.’ – Rebecca Makkai
‘We see incredible opportunity to solve some of the biggest social challenges we have by combining high-performance computing and AI – such as climate change and more.’ – Lisa Su
‘The theme of the Labor Department’s centennial is ‘Then, Now, Next.’ So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we’ve yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.’ – Tom Perez
‘To make real progress in A.I., we have to overcome the big challenges in the area of common sense.’ – Paul Allen
‘Valor’ is a word we don’t commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But ‘valor’ connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.’ – William Barr
‘As a child, I didn’t know what I didn’t have. I’m thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what’s important.’ – America Ferrera
‘I think if you exercise, your state of mind – my state of mind – is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.’ – Stone Gossard
‘As an environmental engineer who spent the early part of my career cleaning up groundwater contamination, I know firsthand the challenges of cleaning up contaminants and the risks posed to human health if we fail.’ – Chris Sununu
”Deal or No Deal’ works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I’m not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I’ve always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It’s like a standup act.’ – Howie Mandel
‘There is good in everything; it’s just how you choose to look at it. Everything that’s worth it has a price. For me to be a model – I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.’ – Gisele Bundchen
‘I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?’ – Dr. Dre
‘We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.’ – Amy Purdy
‘VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.’ – Martin Winterkorn
‘We always talk about single mothers; the challenges they face. But the single father faces challenges as well.’ – Michael Clarke
‘Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.’ – Hassanal Bolkiah
‘People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It’s less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn’t address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.’ – Neil Kinnock
‘There’s been bumps in the road and serious challenges along the way, but my love for NASCAR and my zest for life is what’s most important to me.’ – Michael Waltrip
‘Your destination might not end up being exactly what you envisioned to start with, but if you stick it out and work through the challenges, what you end up with will be far better than you could have ever imagined.’ – Joy Mangano
‘Without the ambition to raise oneself to life’s challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.’ – Mark Goulston
‘I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don’t believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It’s not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.’ – Nigel Mansell
‘It’s a goalkeeper’s job. There’s so many times you’re doing nothing for 89, 90 minutes, and then there’s a split-second moment. It’s a different challenge to outfield players, who have a lot of physical challenges and battle. We have a lot of mental battles; it’s about maintaining your focus, refining processes of what you do in a game.’ – Karen Bardsley
‘Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.’ – Sherry Turkle
‘Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.’ – Bev Perdue
‘The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.’ – Jack Welch
‘The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy.’ – Lu Wei
‘Game development is very difficult. Nobody sets out to create a game that’s not fun. It’s all of the challenges and difficulties that happen throughout development that determine whether a game is a failure or a success. I think playing those thousands of games is the single best and easiest way to learn from my predecessors.’ – Masahiro Sakurai
‘Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.’ – Remo D’Souza
‘We need an all of the above energy policy to address the challenges that we face as a nation. That means wind, electric, solar, and yes – oil and gas.’ – Michelle Steel
‘I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn’t when there is lift from the back.’ – Borje Ekholm
‘True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.’ – Lubna Olayan
‘Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind’s unfinished challenges.’ – Ehud Olmert
‘As a leader, you don’t get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck – or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.’ – John T. Chambers
‘Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.’ – Brian Greene
‘I am a father. My son’s name is Max and my daughter’s name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!’ – John C. McGinley
‘I don’t look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It’s a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.’ – Troy Polamalu
‘Our world faces difficult challenges, but no more so than in the past. Working together in a constructive spirit, we can assure our children the future they deserve.’ – Paul Kagame
‘The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy.’ – Janet Yellen
‘It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that’s what I know for sure… I think.’ – Ellen DeGeneres
‘Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you’re able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.’ – Carnie Wilson
‘Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it’s the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.’ – Roger Deakins
‘The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.’ – William James
‘I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘Sports will equip kids with the necessary tools to face academic challenges, and provide all-round development.’ – Brian Lara
‘In my life I’ve gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.’ – Lilly Singh
‘The books are like children in that having written one doesn’t make writing the next one any easier, because it’s a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.’ – Dara Horn
‘Computer science teaches and nurtures the type of thinking that 21st century citizens will need to address 21st century issues. We cannot know with any certainty what those challenges will be, but we can arm our students with the tools needed to address them.’ – Eric Adams
‘There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life’s challenges.’ – Jared Polis
‘Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘Every season brings new challenges and we always need to give our best.’ – Marcelo
‘During the times I wanted to give up because of all the challenges I faced, we did it. We Filipinos can do it.’ – Hidilyn Diaz
‘Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn – we wouldn’t be who we are without them.’ – Sean Combs
‘The Department of Homeland Security bears an extraordinary weight on behalf of the American people – the weight of grave challenges, seen and unseen.’ – Alejandro Mayorkas
‘We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can’t let that hold you down… If that’s the first thing you think about as a black woman – the challenge that lies ahead – you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.’ – Tamron Hall
‘The more you practice tolerating discomfort, the more confidence you’ll gain in your ability to accept new challenges.’ – Amy Morin
‘Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.’ – Safra A. Catz
‘Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.’ – Ferdinand Marcos
‘In any merger, when you have large organisations coming together, there will be challenges in terms of culture.’ – Ajay Piramal
‘When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won’t end up in a situation that you regret later on.’ – Danica McKellar
‘Being a boss has been one of the greatest privileges and challenges of my life.’ – Rachel Hollis
‘It’s impossible to change the social without changing the personal – you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you’re not making those challenges at home, it’s unlikely you’ll make them in a larger setting.’ – Carrie Mae Weems
‘The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.’ – Jon Meacham
‘Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.’ – Dan Lipinski
‘As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.’ – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
‘The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.’ – Jurgen Klopp
‘Life is full of challenges and surprises, and I’ve had my share.’ – John Daly
”Option B’ draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.’ – Sheryl Sandberg
‘If you want to try new challenges you have to adapt.’ – Zico
‘I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.’ – Kobe Bryant
‘We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It’s never fun to see a child hurt, even if it’s just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.’ – Darell Hammond
‘My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.’ – John Kani
‘Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.’ – Pat Conroy
‘It’s really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.’ – J. Michael Straczynski
‘There are always new challenges in football. You just need to adapt; otherwise, you won’t fit in. And if you don’t fit in, then you will have to go somewhere else.’ – Kevin De Bruyne
‘AI can help solve some of the most difficult social and environmental challenges in areas like healthcare, disaster prediction, environmental conservation, agriculture, or cultural preservation.’ – Jeff Dean
‘A story isn’t interesting unless a character has real challenges to deal with.’ – Alexis Bledel
‘I’m obsessed with this sport. I’m obsessed with getting better. I’m obsessed with winning. Losing’s part of it. It challenges you to grow.’ – Cody Garbrandt
‘No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy.’ – Kofi Annan
‘One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.’ – Angela Duckworth
‘Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.’ – Billy Graham
‘We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.’ – Les Brown
‘Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won’t ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.’ – Max Carver
‘Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.’ – Robbie Keane
‘I feel like a lot of the successes in my life have come down to the Super Mario Effect, and while framing challenges like this has worked for me, of course, results may vary.’ – Mark Rober
‘Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati
‘I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.’ – Kathryn Lasky
‘Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.’ – C. J. Mahaney
‘Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.’ – Sonia Levitin
‘I’m difficult for management. That’s why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.’ – Keith Olbermann
‘As a small business owner, I understand the hardships and challenges that come with starting a small business.’ – Young Kim
‘Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.’ – Mike McGavick
‘Life comprises of both: opportunities as well as challenges.’ – Chanda Kochhar
‘Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.’ – Barack Obama
‘The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it’s very hard for people like that – people like me – to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.’ – Christina Aguilera
‘As an entrepreneur, in many ways it’s like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges – scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.’ – Mike McCue
‘I like everything that challenges me.’ – Anitta
‘Studies have identified a significant ‘skills gap’ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.’ – Stephen Covey
‘Humanity’s future, to say nothing of its prosperity, will depend on how the world tackles two central energy challenges: securing reliable supplies of affordable energy and switching to efficient low-carbon energy.’ – Fatih Birol
‘I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.’ – Sheri L. Dew
‘One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.’ – Jidenna
‘I guess I have a short attention span! I’m interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.’ – Alfonso Cuaron
‘I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face.’ – Kawhi Leonard
‘To rightly recognize that men and women are equal under the law is perfectly removed from the fact that men and women are distinguishable beings that have been shaped by sex-specific evolutionary challenges. Accordingly, there is no reason to assume or expect that there should be equal representation of the two sexes across all contexts.’ – Gad Saad
‘I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it’s love or money, kids or illness… You have to really not run away from that stuff.’ – Chris Martin
‘At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It’s a cliche, but it’s underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.’ – Leonard Cohen
‘For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most – while still letting us notice when it’s time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.’ – Jane McGonigal
‘One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain’s processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.’ – Eric Kandel
‘I think water seeks its own level, that we go through challenges to become better. And now more than ever, it’s good to look at who you’re following in any type of hierarchy or institution – be it a church or the government. We can see how easy it is for people to lose their footing when they have great power.’ – Lynn Whitfield
‘Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color as well by listening to them, valuing their experiences, and becoming actively involved in creating policies and innovative programs that promote their well-being.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
‘As a small farmer, I know that farming is a tough job on any day and COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges facing New Mexico’s farmers and ranchers.’ – Ben Ray Lujan
‘There are many challenges ahead, and one of the most important ones I face is ensuring the future sustainability of our city.’ – Park Won-soon
‘One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.’ – Samuel Wilson
‘When I started to write, it was the ’70s, and throughout that decade, we didn’t have any problems with book challenges or censorship.’ – Judy Blume
‘People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘Every new conversation, every new relationship, brings new challenges and opportunities for honest expression.’ – Mark Manson
‘I was fortunate enough to have this career that spanned the public and private sectors so I thought I was well-prepared to be able to take on some of the challenges that Uber presented.’ – Tony West
‘Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 – that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.’ – Mae Jemison
‘Life is full of challenges and I will continue to embrace them each and every one.’ – Simon Jordan
‘I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it’s really mental.’ – Adriana Lima
‘I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what’s already been there – like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven’t been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.’ – Blair Underwood
‘There’s always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor market and the threat that it poses to economic mobility. Rising to this challenge is not automatic. It’s not costless. It’s not easy. But it is feasible.’ – David Autor
‘Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we’ll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.’ – Martina Navratilova
‘You can’t let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.’ – Danny Meyer
‘Overcoming challenges by learning something in a game is a very rewarding feeling, and that’s what I wanted to prioritise in ‘Dark Souls’ and ‘Demon’s Souls.” – Hidetaka Miyazaki
‘In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing.’ – Bradley James
‘Something deep inside me lives by challenges.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
‘I need some challenges in love or I’m bored.’ – Simon Baker
‘I’m appreciative of things going wrong. At first it sounds crazy, but how boring would life be if you just coasted along without any challenges? Without learning about who you really are through the process of going through the darker times? Without feeling the sense of elation when you reach even a small stepping stone?’ – Kirsten Sweetland
‘It’s a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.’ – Jeff Bridges
‘Instead of insulting our teachers and tearing down public education, I believe in a Kentucky where we put students and teachers first – and I’ll work to do just that by fixing some of the greatest challenges they face every day.’ – Andy Beshear
‘One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.’ – Leroy Chiao
‘This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.’ – Pierre Poilievre
‘The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.’ – Naveen Jain
‘My thing has always been to change tack, do something that challenges me.’ – Les Dennis
‘Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.’ – Julie Bishop
‘Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.’ – Li Ning
‘Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by – and the challenges only multiply.’ – Martha Reeves
‘You just can’t think of safe options always. You have to accept challenges head on.’ – Vijay Shankar
‘My husband and I had recently been in a car accident, and I came out of that experience with more clarity about my career and the energy to continue to pursue it hard, no matter what the challenges.’ – Wendy Liebman
‘The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they’re doing their own challenges. It’s back to cooking. And it’s real cooking.’ – Emeril Lagasse
‘You’ve never heard me talk about politics all that much, and it’s just – I can’t think of anybody more dangerous as president than Donald Trump. I can’t think of anything worse than with him not having a clue. I mean, could you imagine somebody who doesn’t read and doesn’t learn trying to deal with the day-to-day changes and challenges of that job?’ – Mark Cuban
‘When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.’ – Jim Inhofe
‘Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.’ – Brian Tracy
‘It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.’ – Daisaku Ikeda
‘You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.’ – Norah O’Donnell
‘I could foresee myself having some frustration in trying to help people do what I tried to do on the court and maybe having some challenges in trying to transmit that.’ – Karch Kiraly
‘Challenges need to be given to an organization.’ – Ratan Tata
‘I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.’ – Victoria Arlen
‘I’ve enjoyed the challenges of playing in the biggest games.’ – John Stones
‘Throughout life, you keep exercising your faith, so when you get into different challenges, you decide, ‘this time I’m going to trust God,’ and God comes through for you. That’s how it kept building and building for me, so I can be confident and go into places knowing that God’s got me. That’s why a lot of times I can be fearless.’ – Bukayo Saka
‘Challenges keep evolving as you move into different stages. When you are at a prototype stage, it’s about getting that sustenance money. Then, talent becomes an issue; your early hires are difficult to get when you aren’t too big. Later, it’s about handling growth; then, you have competition.’ – Bhavish Aggarwal
‘To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.’ – William H. McRaven
‘When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.’ – Robert Kagan
‘Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn’t feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.’ – Alden Ehrenreich
‘It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play ‘World of Warcraft’ with your son. But you’re actually interacting with each other. You’re solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you’re solving them. You’re posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You’re on a quest to gain certain capabilities.’ – Vint Cerf
‘Being aware of challenges doesn’t make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.’ – Mellody Hobson
‘The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.’ – Julian Castro
‘Having challenges in your life open doors for you.’ – Payal Kadakia
‘Just like everyone else, I’m not perfect; I go through challenges as well.’ – Jazz Jennings
‘Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.’ – Shakuntala Devi
‘I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I’m excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.’ – Karen Kain
‘Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person’s point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.’ – Arlo Guthrie
‘I’m up for challenges. I’m up for being outside the box, making tough decisions and challenges… And I’m a little bit of an adrenaline junkie.’ – Becky Hammon
‘We’ve got to tell our stories to influence culture, and we have to get more people elected who have faced challenges like domestic violence, working minimum-wage jobs, wondering how to get food on the table… regular people.’ – MJ Hegar
‘Princeton University’s campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.’ – Steven Holl
‘For every different role you play it’s nice to have different challenges for each one.’ – Freddie Highmore
‘As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float – and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.’ – Ryan Holmes
‘I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.’ – Viswanathan Anand
‘I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.’ – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
‘A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.’ – Barack Obama
‘And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.’ – Rowan Atkinson
‘We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.’ – Ryan Reynolds
‘Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it’s a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That’s close to impossible, but that doesn’t keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.’ – Arnold Palmer
‘Every 20 years or so, I feel that young people confront the same issues – a new war, new challenges.’ – Sixto Rodriguez
‘I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I’m repeating something I’m good at. So I’m always looking for new challenges.’ – Jewel
‘Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges they can’t control, from too much rain to not enough, from disease to insect infestations.’ – Luther Strange
‘As an actor, I feel, I should not choose a film just to help get great box office results but one that challenges me as an actor and gives me the pleasure of playing a certain role.’ – Rakshit Shetty
‘In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.’ – David A. Bednar
‘They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.’ – Alanis Morissette
‘While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.’ – David Malpass
‘If we want to make workplaces more open, we need to acknowledge logistical challenges… by being more open, it might create a path for other women.’ – Jacinda Ardern
‘Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.’ – Shawn Johnson
‘It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.’ – Robert Kiyosaki
‘I try desperately to try and figure out how they’d react to different scenarios. That’s part of what the DM’s job is: to try and know their players well enough to where they can build encounters, challenges, and be like, ‘I think they would do this in this scenario, so I will go ahead and prepare a few options based on this.” – Matthew Mercer
‘I’m just really excited about my future and I’m really looking forward to taking challenges… and I just can’t wait to start.’ – Yuta Watanabe
‘We’re living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don’t work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.’ – Ann Richards
‘When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you’re capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.’ – Willem Dafoe
‘Thinking about the new epoch – often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity – challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.’ – David Grinspoon
‘There is too much disagreement for disagreement’s sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.’ – Cory Booker
‘Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.’ – Harsha Bhogle
‘Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.’ – Ken Starr
‘My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it’s intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.’ – John C. Mather
‘The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I’ve faced, and the camaraderie I’ve experienced are at the core of who I am.’ – Tammy Duckworth
‘Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.’ – Samuel P. Huntington
‘In these troubled, uncertain times, we don’t need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone’s intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley
‘I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.’ – Gabby Douglas
‘The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘If you want something that’s going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can’t beat a place like the Air Force. I don’t mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it’s been a lot of fun.’ – Michael P. Anderson
‘I’ve had hundreds of challenges at Traveller gatherings. They get a few beers in them, and they start thinking they are Tyson or Ali: throwing punches, swearing, and jumping around with their big fat bellies. I’d love to knock a few of them out.’ – Tyson Fury
‘I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.’ – Michael Jordan
‘Each fight has its own preparations and challenges.’ – Gennady Golovkin
‘I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America’s greatness.’ – Paul Tsongas
‘I’m for big challenges and can face anybody, but I know they have legends in ‘WWE ’12,’ so I’d love to see myself against Andre the Giant.’ – Alberto Del Rio
‘I’m an incurable optimist, and I’m a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.’ – Cherie Blair
‘One of the biggest challenges we face today is finding managers who can sense and respond to rapid shifts, people who can process new information very quickly and make decisions in real time. It’s a problem for the computer industry as a whole – and not just for Dell – that the industry’s growth has outpaced its ability to create managers.’ – Michael Dell
‘Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.’ – Nancy Gibbs
‘While looking ahead, we know challenges remain, but we are encouraged by the strategies we have in place to improve our operational efficiencies and performance.’ – Karen Katz
‘The post-‘Merlin’ era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That’s the fantastic thing about acting – all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I’m looking forward to different things that come my way.’ – Bradley James
‘The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.’ – Roy Romer
‘Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.’ – Michael Schumacher
‘The fact that doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality, can reinforce this pattern of seeing the changes and challenges aging brings on through our heads and our bodies, rather than as a shared experience.’ – Chuck Norris
‘No matter the challenges ahead, I will never stop fighting for New Jersey and the values we share.’ – Bob Menendez
‘All innovators face challenges and seldom enjoy family support.’ – Sudha Murty
‘Challenges motivate me.’ – James Toney
‘I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.’ – Viswanathan Anand
‘Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.’ – T. B. Joshua
‘Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.’ – Shashi Tharoor
‘Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.’ – Bob Iger
‘Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges – but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.’ – Edi Rama
‘One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.’ – Reid Hoffman
‘America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced – and met – tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.’ – Christopher Bond
‘I love puzzles, challenges, the feeling that you get when you have an obstacle and go through adversity, finding the strength to go on.’ – Jason Collins
‘We know that all too often, homelessness and behavioral health challenges go hand in hand.’ – London Breed
‘Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.’ – Billy Graham
‘Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, which would be a blessing, but that blessing is not a reason to move from artificial brain enhancement to artificial intimacy.’ – Sherry Turkle
‘I have a tremendous passion for fitness, I love challenges and I am a very driven guy.’ – Lou Ferrigno
‘The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.’ – Hillary Clinton
‘Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.’ – Laura Schlessinger
‘What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.’ – Barbara De Angelis
‘Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong – stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.’ – Tom Daschle
‘When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger
‘A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.’ – Bill Owens
‘Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.’ – Christine Gregoire
‘I’m as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there’s going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there’s a war on terrorism going on, we’re all going to have to work together.’ – John McCain
‘One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it’s hard to keep track of them.’ – Rod Blagojevich
‘In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.’ – Wayne Allard
‘While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.’ – Mike Crapo
‘Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.’ – David Vitter
‘Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.’ – Bill Frist
‘I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff – those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I’ll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all.’ – Richard Roxburgh
‘The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.’ – Jack Reed
‘So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.’ – James H. Douglas, Jr.
‘In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together – and I look forward to the challenges ahead.’ – Richard Burr
‘Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan
‘Crises are challenges, not calamities.’ – Guy Verhofstadt
‘Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president’s plans to transform the military.’ – Duncan Hunter
‘I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn’t change. I have the same challenges every day.’ – Dan Brown
‘Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.’ – Chris Bell
‘I don’t think art is a goal orientated business. I don’t do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I’m not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.’ – Greg Lake
‘When you coach as long as I did, you can’t help but miss those Saturdays – dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.’ – Tom Osborne
‘Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.’ – David Price
‘The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They’ve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.’ – Spencer Abraham
‘All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn’t understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.’ – Marisa Tomei
‘The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world’s richest source of rewarding challenges.’ – Edsger Dijkstra
‘Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.’ – Phyllis Schlafly
‘And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.’ – Ed Rendell
‘When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.’ – Julie Bishop
‘What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you’ve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.’ – Michael Bay
‘I think each role has had different challenges.’ – Chad Lowe
‘Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I’m glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.’ – Debbie Allen
‘As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.’ – Sue Kelly
‘Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear – fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.’ – Arthur Levitt
‘Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.’ – Arthur Levitt
‘Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.’ – Jane D. Hull
‘Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.’ – Joe Morton
‘We’ve got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.’ – John Abizaid
‘Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.’ – Bob Menendez
‘However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.’ – Ed Markey
‘San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.’ – Gavin Newsom
‘Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.’ – Michael N. Castle
‘A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.’ – Richard V. Allen
‘But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.’ – Lee H. Hamilton
‘The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.’ – Jerry Costello
‘Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.’ – Jerry Costello
‘A lot of celebrities, especially when you’re talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.’ – Kathy Griffin
‘I’m calling my book series the ‘with God series.’ And this next ‘with God’ book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of ‘better’ on this planet.’ – Neale Donald Walsch
‘As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty – as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today – our nation will remain free and strong.’ – Doc Hastings
‘There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn’t able to do.’ – Shawn Wayans
‘Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.’ – Jim Gerlach
‘But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.’ – John M. McHugh
‘We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.’ – John M. McHugh
‘Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.’ – Mark Kennedy
‘For me, being a starter doesn’t matter. Of course, I’d like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.’ – Sue Wicks
‘While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.’ – Chaka Fattah
‘We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.’ – Chris Chocola
‘When I’m about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I’ve tried to anticipate some of the challenges I’m going to encounter in the darkroom.’ – John Sexton
‘At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.’ – John Hutton
‘But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.’ – John Hutton
‘Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.’ – John Hutton
‘But we had – I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.’ – Robert Mueller
‘I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.’ – Sanford I. Weill
‘The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.’ – Charles B. Rangel
‘There’s always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don’t care how much money you make, where you live… and that’s something this film speaks to.’ – Ryan Phillippe
‘The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.’ – Carol P. Christ
‘Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America.’ – Donald Evans
‘I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy’s doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I’m pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.’ – Donald Evans
‘At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.’ – Paul Farmer
‘Everyone has their challenges.’ – Wentworth Miller
‘I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.’ – Carol Bellamy
‘Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.’ – Sydney Brenner
‘There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.’ – John Hull
‘But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.’ – Laura Miller
‘One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.’ – Birch Bayh
‘Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.’ – Christine Lahti
‘I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.’ – Nancy Kerrigan
‘So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I’ve met. I currently don’t have any enemies that I know of.’ – Trishelle Cannatella
‘The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.’ – Lillie Langtry
‘The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.’ – John Ashcroft
‘The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.’ – Walter Annenberg
‘The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.’ – Emily Greene Balch
‘Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.’ – Sarah Zettel
‘That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I’ll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.’ – John Zorn
‘I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That’s always a challenge.’ – Rita Coolidge
‘Well, we’ve faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we – since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm’s way.’ – Laura Bush
‘Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.’ – Rick Renzi
‘In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.’ – Jim Costa
‘I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I’ve definitely been through it – not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.’ – Alison Lohman
‘For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It’s hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.’ – Alison Lohman
‘One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren’t that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.’ – Steve Case
‘You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don’t just follow the herd like somebody else might do.’ – Renny Harlin
‘But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don’t have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.’ – Michael Chertoff
‘I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.’ – Melissa Bean
‘It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.’ – Mark Foley
‘In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community – North America and Europe together – has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.’ – Lord Robertson
‘In my rational mind, I know… that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can’t say that I totally understand why – why that is allowed to happen.’ – Linda Vester
‘As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.’ – Mike Fitzpatrick
‘I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion – because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges.’ – Lord Robertson
‘As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.’ – Wilmer Valderrama
‘I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.’ – Jack Prelutsky
‘The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.’ – George Stigler
‘I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don’t feel like ADD has impaired my ability.’ – David Neeleman
‘Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.’ – Stanislav Grof
‘After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.’ – Jim Ryun
‘I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.’ – DeForest Soaries
‘There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.’ – Leroy Chiao
‘In opera, everyone’s watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn’t relate too much to film.’ – Bruce Beresford
‘The specifics of Cathy’s and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.’ – Cathy Guisewite
‘Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges – challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.’ – Boris Yeltsin
‘Sometimes it’s just harder to remind yourself about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it… Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you’re not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.’ – Andre Agassi
‘There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.’ – Harri Holkeri
‘I really believe deep in my soul that we’re going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.’ – Zach Wamp
‘Our theme for this year’s festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.’ – Lucille Roybal-Allard
‘Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.’ – Russell M. Nelson
‘When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.’ – Donald Trump
‘I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.’ – John Corigliano
‘Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.’ – Charlotte Bunch
‘These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it’s so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.’ – Michael Bloomberg
‘It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.’ – Bob Barr
‘We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.’ – Mitch Daniels
‘I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There’s no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.’ – Ben Crenshaw
‘Given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.’ – Valerie Jarrett
‘The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today – pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources – are not about monetary policy.’ – Timothy Geithner
‘My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.’ – Valerie Jarrett
‘The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.’ – David Petraeus
‘If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.’ – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
‘With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.’ – Debbie Wasserman Schultz
‘It’s clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we’ve created in the structure of the system.’ – Austan Goolsbee
‘Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it’s more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.’ – James Franco
‘Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country’s biggest challenges. The country’s biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I’m really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.’ – Paul Ryan
‘I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I’m also aware that I’ve loved every minute of the ‘Potter ‘experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.’ – David Heyman
‘No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan
‘There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.’ – Jack Layton
‘Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.’ – Daryn Kagan
‘There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.’ – Steve Coogan
‘We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.’ – George Papandreou
‘We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.’ – Mitt Romney
‘I didn’t think there was life after modelling, believe me. It’s a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can’t do something.’ – Carol Alt
‘I need to learn how to face challenges.’ – Shawn Johnson
‘You have to find it in the moment, and that’s one of the challenges of being an actor – especially a film actor – is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There’s no trick to it. You just have to do.’ – Aaron Stanford
‘What I would say is that vows and rings don’t change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.’ – America Ferrera
‘The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can’t stick our heads in the sand and say ‘it can’t happen to me.” – Brande Roderick
‘What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.’ – Chelsea Clinton
‘My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father’s journey.’ – Chelsea Clinton
‘People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.’ – Chelsea Clinton
‘I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I’ve made and the challenges that I’ve gone through.’ – Nicole Richie
‘I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They’re losing their jobs, they’re losing their homes, they’re dealing with financial challenges.’ – Alexi Giannoulias
‘My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.’ – Stella McCartney
‘In a presidential campaign, you can’t lie. You can’t hide what you are and what you want. You can’t hide what kind of President you’ll be. You can’t keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can’t keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.’ – Nicolas Sarkozy
‘You know, it’s just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.’ – Kurt Busch
‘But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.’ – Billy Joe Saunders
‘While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.’ – Ryoko Tani
‘I’m very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.’ – Dana Hussein
‘I love overcoming challenges and fear.’ – Laura Wilkinson
‘Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.’ – Melanie Roach
‘I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.’ – David Baldacci
‘Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.’ – Brittany Snow
‘I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.’ – George R. R. Martin
‘Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.’ – Ann Romney
‘Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer’s disease.’ – Pat Summitt
‘I’m inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.’ – Romario
‘I’ve taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that’s what I like and I’d rather do that than be safe all the time.’ – Ruud Gullit
‘When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you’re running your own business, but it’s how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.’ – Lori Greiner
‘I look forward to the challenges.’ – Maria Sharapova
‘If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you’re going to have some kind of problem.’ – Ricky Williams
‘My restaurant, Tex Wasabi’s, we have a whole ‘Minute to Win It’ challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn’t even aired and they’re already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it’s going to take over.’ – Guy Fieri
‘Like everyone else, I have challenges.’ – Carnie Wilson
‘I’m really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.’ – David Copperfield
‘Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That’s why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.’ – Anders Fogh Rasmussen
‘These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.’ – Cedric Richmond
‘I think everyone shares a fear of failure – that you’re only as good as your most recent collection. That’s definitely a fear, but it’s a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.’ – Alexander Wang
‘We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president’s budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years – a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.’ – Jack Lew
‘While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.’ – Paul Ryan
‘Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.’ – James Buchan
‘It’s hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.’ – Jim Courier
‘I accept sceptics, you’ve got to have challenges.’ – Dan Aykroyd
‘I really believe I’m no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.’ – Dave Pelzer
‘Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.’ – Meredith Whitney
‘I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.’ – Fred Upton
‘We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.’ – Marco Rubio
‘One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what’s gotten you there thus far.’ – Andrew Mason
‘Any time an elected official in the world we’re in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.’ – Jeb Bush
‘Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.’ – Leon Panetta
‘Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.’ – John Sununu
‘I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.’ – Valerie Jarrett
‘Challenges of historic import threaten America’s future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.’ – Evan Bayh
‘My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience – both my own and that of my family – in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.’ – Joe Kennedy III
‘One of the challenges we set up for ‘Puscifer’ was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.’ – Maynard James Keenan
‘I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.’ – Rush Limbaugh
‘Any work that’s worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That’s true if you’re running a business, it’s true if you’re trying to help on a campaign.’ – Carly Fiorina
‘The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.’ – E. O. Wilson
‘I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.’ – Dane Cook
‘No nation can meet the world’s challenges alone.’ – Hillary Clinton
‘China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.’ – Hu Jintao
‘I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way – at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.’ – John Thune
‘The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.’ – Larry J. Sabato
‘The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It’s part of why I was so driven.’ – Pete Cashmore
‘I think it’s very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They’re different issues.’ – Jack Lew
‘I love challenges.’ – Max Baucus
‘It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.’ – Andrew Mitchell
‘But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it’s beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.’ – Tony Blair
‘I’m not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.’ – Larry David
‘It’s been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.’ – Danielle Steel
‘To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you’re inventing a world, you’re inventing characters. If they’re interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?’ – Melissa Rosenberg
‘That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you’re not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I’m just more creative at night.’ – Stephenie Meyer
‘I think it’s a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don’t have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.’ – Michael Haneke
‘Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.’ – Warren Farrell
‘The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.’ – Jonathan Kozol
‘You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn’t fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can’t even speak the same language?’ – Theresa May
‘I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don’t know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.’ – Elizabeth Edwards
‘I’ve been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.’ – Josh Hutcherson
‘I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they’ll have available to them if they get sick.’ – Debbie Stabenow
‘I’ll be at the table, as I’ve been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, ‘Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.’ I’m ready. I’m waiting.’ – Patty Murray
‘The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.’ – Brian Cox
‘Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.’ – Gus O’Donnell
‘I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.’ – Kevin Rudd
‘So in terms of the global economic footprint, let’s just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world’s largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all.’ – Kevin Rudd
‘The Government’s mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.’ – Kevin Rudd
‘But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation’s future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.’ – Kevin Rudd
‘For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation’s challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.’ – Ron Fournier
‘By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.’ – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
‘Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It’s very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.’ – Yani Tseng
‘History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.’ – Preet Bharara
‘I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.’ – James Iha
”Do What You Gotta Do’ is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you’re up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.’ – Angie Stone
‘Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square… I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.’ – Eric Holder
‘Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place… That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life’s problems and challenges.’ – Erin Gray
‘Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we’ll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years.’ – Evan Davis
‘I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.’ – Geoff Davis
‘I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.’ – Kyle Chandler
‘I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.’ – Freeman A. Hrabowski III
‘One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.’ – Freida Pinto
‘I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.’ – Holly Madison
‘My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don’t want to just be known for being involved in ‘Playboy,’ or having been Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend – I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That’s my main motivation.’ – Holly Madison
‘Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can’t figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.’ – Justin Cronin
‘I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.’ – Lisa Scottoline
‘But, you know, we have these entrenched entities – and I’m talking about both Republicans and Democrats – who believe that when you’re elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.’ – Ben Carson
‘Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.’ – Johann Lamont
‘One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can’t do anything to your performance once you’ve laid it on film.’ – Amber Heard
‘The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.’ – Simon Mainwaring
‘One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.’ – Simon Mainwaring
‘Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.’ – Simon Mainwaring
‘No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.’ – Simon Mainwaring
‘As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.’ – Simon Mainwaring
‘Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female’s success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.’ – Mika Brzezinski
‘Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?’ – Mika Brzezinski
‘Certainly in my appetite for more challenges, it’s very much alive. I love comedy and it comes to me in a natural way.’ – Shawn Levy
‘I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.’ – Carla Gugino
‘I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you’re carrying a film, there’s a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you’re in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.’ – Carla Gugino
‘I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.’ – David Mitchell
‘I’d like someone who challenges me, someone who is more beautiful in the inside than they are on the outside.’ – Matthew Morrison
‘Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.’ – Mireille Enos
‘I create little challenges for myself, like, ‘Okay, whatever you do in this song, you’ve got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,’ or something like that.’ – Andrew Bird
‘Sometimes these challenges naturally select more chefs that can think on their feet very quickly. There are chefs I know who won’t put things on the menu unless they’ve tried it four or five times. So you just naturally select a certain kind of chef, people who maybe don’t win a bunch of challenges but they hang around.’ – Tom Colicchio
‘My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.’ – Chuck Hagel
‘One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.’ – Tom Shadyac
‘One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.’ – Joshua Foer
‘Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes – these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.’ – Jonathan Demme
‘It’s the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it’s running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.’ – Mark Udall
‘A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges – its dynamism is essential to our economy.’ – Anna Eshoo
‘I like challenges that test your ingenuity.’ – Colin Baker
‘It’s time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.’ – Steven Rattner
‘Most parliamentarians don’t have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.’ – David Puttnam
‘At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.’ – Jeff Raikes
‘As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we’re imaginative. We’re resourceful. We like challenges.’ – Meredith Monk
‘If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.’ – Max Levchin
‘For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.’ – Margaret Chan
‘None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.’ – Edward Whitacre, Jr.
‘Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.’ – Feisal Abdul Rauf
‘I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York – lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.’ – Mark Skousen
‘I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one’s humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.’ – Naveen Jain
‘I’ve been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.’ – Naveen Jain
‘I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you’re trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.’ – Naveen Jain
‘What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.’ – Naveen Jain
‘I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.’ – Naveen Jain
‘Everybody goes through challenges. There’s stuff that happens personally that’s challenging, stuff in work that’s difficult, disappointments that happen.’ – Melanie Lynskey
‘For me, I’m always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.’ – Omari Hardwick
‘People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.’ – Ed Begley, Jr.
‘Any time there is ‘un-forgiveness’ between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don’t understand… there is suffering.’ – Iyanla Vanzant
‘You know, if you’re a human and living on the planet, it doesn’t matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn’t mean anything. I’m still human.’ – Iyanla Vanzant
‘I’ve always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.’ – Irene Rosenfeld
‘It’s important to set challenges that you’re not sure you’re equal to.’ – Dorothy Allison
‘I’m sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I’m sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.’ – Jennifer Grant
‘I don’t ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I’m always looking for new challenges.’ – Mary Frann
‘As you get older, challenges arise that you aren’t prepared for, but what got me through it was music.’ – Kate Voegele
‘When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.’ – Darell Hammond
‘The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.’ – Darell Hammond
‘I don’t know if I’m so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don’t see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.’ – Dean Karnazes
‘To an extreme athlete, there’s a certain appeal to doing extreme things – seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.’ – Dean Karnazes
‘EMILY’s List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we’ve learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don’t understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.’ – Ellen Malcolm
‘I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.’ – Olympia Snowe
‘Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.’ – Olympia Snowe
‘Most people don’t like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.’ – Michael Cudlitz
‘I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.’ – Joanne Harris
‘The point of what I do is that it doesn’t really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.’ – James Frey
‘I’m a person who likes to tackle challenges. Google was a challenge when I got there. I think AOL’s a challenge. The way we run the company is a very team-focused environment.’ – Tim Armstrong
‘Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user’s experience. It’s obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.’ – David Einhorn
‘Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. ‘Only old and stupid people believe.” – Miroslav Volf
‘The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That’s just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don’t wait until they’re dead.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we’re simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘The 21st century – and the atheists – needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.’ – Tariq Ramadan
‘Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn’t create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we’re at our best when faced with enormous challenges.’ – Clara Shih
‘I do stay busy. I like new challenges.’ – Kirk Kerkorian
‘I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There’s nothing resting about acting.’ – David Morrissey
‘Everybody has their challenges; I couldn’t say that we have more challenges than other people, they’re just different.’ – Tracy Pollan
‘Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what’s expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children’s lives.’ – Susan Cain
‘I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven’t been grave challenges facing newspapers.’ – Donald Newhouse
‘I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.’ – Richard Lamm
‘Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.’ – Victor Pinchuk
‘There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn’t know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn’t find it. There was nothing.’ – Kathryn Minshew
‘There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.’ – Adam Braun
‘I’m inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction.’ – John Roos
‘Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.’ – Roger Ebert
‘What I love to do is take on business challenges in a way that really can have an impact on peoples’ lives.’ – Greg Brenneman
‘I’ve dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family.’ – Sean Faris
‘One of the biggest challenges is for women to find an organization that’s willing to accept them back after they leave the work force to raise children without taking a cut in compensation and responsibility.’ – Diane Garnick
‘Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.’ – Malvinder Mohan Singh
‘One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.’ – Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
‘Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.’ – Mark McKinnon
‘The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.’ – Nick Cave
‘It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges – I relish them – I think it’s what make me tick, to a certain extent.’ – Raymond Kelly
‘My childhood had its challenges, like everyone’s. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson
‘I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.’ – Jeremy Grantham
‘The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.’ – Jann Wenner
‘At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.’ – Cary Fowler
‘Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.’ – Melissa Etheridge
‘Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There’s a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they’re going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.’ – Sheryl Sandberg
‘The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.’ – Ethan Zuckerman
‘When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won’t even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we’re perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.’ – Evgeny Morozov
‘I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life – just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.’ – Kevin Nealon
‘I don’t want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.’ – Dylan Moran
‘There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.’ – Martin Filler
‘I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple – gay or straight – should be able to get married.’ – Al Franken
‘The world is full of challenges, but with those come opportunity, and I’m an opportunist.’ – Homaro Cantu
‘Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.’ – Jamais Cascio
‘Game developers know that people have more fun when they’re in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.’ – Jane McGonigal
‘Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.’ – Jane McGonigal
‘Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.’ – LZ Granderson
‘As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.’ – LZ Granderson
‘I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh
‘Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That’s why I don’t go climb mountains.’ – Jeff Garlin
‘I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can’t find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I’m headed.’ – Dallas Roberts
‘I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.’ – Zainab Salbi
‘So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren’t always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself – at the optimism and hope – you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.’ – Sonia Sotomayor
‘The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts… I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.’ – Kellie Martin
‘New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor’s race that is focused on them.’ – Christine Quinn
‘Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.’ – Kristin Armstrong
‘I like challenges. That’s why if I read a script, and I feel, ‘Oh, I can’t do this,’ I’ll take that role, because if I feel like, ‘Oh, I can do this,’ I don’t want to take that because I can’t learn from that film.’ – Rinko Kikuchi
‘I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it’s very important to always support new projects.’ – Kate del Castillo
‘I think it’s very important to support the program in your area, as each part of the country has its own challenges coping with AIDS. It can be very different from state to state and city to city. Wherever you live, there is surely someone who could use your help.’ – Beth Broderick
‘I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means ‘lion’s heart.” – Leander Paes
‘I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan
‘I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.’ – Rahul Dravid
‘What challenges me is this – I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.’ – Arjun Rampal
‘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
‘The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.’ – D. A. Carson
‘I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I’ll always pick a comedy over a drama.’ – Sigourney Weaver
‘When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn’t want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.’ – Brian J. White
‘I believe that every human being has mental challenges.’ – Sandra Bullock
‘I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.’ – George Steiner
‘Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.’ – Al Franken
‘As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as ‘The Slap’ has, that’s great. The sense I get is that it’s not about me or my performance. More than anything it’s the subject matter that people are focused on.” – Jonathan LaPaglia
‘You can’t start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn – we wouldn’t be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn’t be who I am.’ – Sean Combs
‘I have to say I’ve been lucky in that way in that I’ve been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.’ – Amy Adams
‘Faith in God… produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.’ – Kirk Cameron
‘I’m not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.’ – Frank Lampard
‘I don’t think lying has any ultimate justification. I don’t think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That’s one of the challenges in a way.’ – Andy Garcia
‘I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.’ – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
‘Music is about people for me. It’s not about sounds. It’s about people; it’s about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.’ – John Zorn
‘We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.’ – Mosab Hassan Yousef
‘One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.’ – Andrea Hirata
‘There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.’ – Ashwin Sanghi
‘One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.’ – Adam Davidson
‘I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that’s unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.’ – Thom Yorke
‘When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that’s what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.’ – Jennifer Lopez
‘One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.’ – Rush Limbaugh
‘Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.’ – Rush Limbaugh
‘I’m interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.’ – Alfonso Cuaron
‘I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I’ve been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced.’ – Evangeline Lilly
‘Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.’ – John Lasseter
‘Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first time. Facing those challenges of radiation, navigation and life support on a months-long trip millions of miles from home would be a perfect learning journey before a Mars trip.’ – Rusty Schweickart
‘Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.’ – Darren L Johnson
‘The worst thing a man can admit is ‘I’m not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.’ But it doesn’t mean he doesn’t love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did.’ – David Duchovny
‘If we don’t re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges – economic, social and political – are destined to be driven to the brink, further jeopardizing the strength and competitiveness of our country and its citizens.’ – Alan Siegel
‘Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today’s problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.’ – Alan Siegel
‘We don’t know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability and democracy and human rights, and which is achievable in the time-frame necessary to make it through the challenges we face.’ – Alex Steffen
‘I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard
‘My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I’m not afraid to try anything.’ – Carla Hall
‘The truth is, I’m just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.’ – Edmund Hillary
‘I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.’ – Jim Lee
‘Finding specialty food items was a bit of a challenge in Asia in the early days of getting the Mozza’s up and running. Everything is built on relationships, and when you start somewhere new, it takes time to develop that. Staffing can also present challenges.’ – Joe Bastianich
‘I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.’ – Lapo Elkann
‘There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.’ – Richard Rogers
‘I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.’ – Francisco Costa
‘One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it’s got value? We’re moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.’ – Jeremy Stoppelman
‘As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson’s patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.’ – David Perlmutter
‘I think what you have to recognise is everybody has their own deal, and everybody has challenges. Do I think that it was easier for me because at a certain point in my career I didn’t have children? Yeah, I think absolutely so. But everybody has their own deal.’ – Beth Brooke
‘The truth doesn’t lie. It’s up in your face. It’s in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.’ – Monica Johnson
‘I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
”Bunk’ is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created ‘Bunk.” – Kurt Braunohler
‘A Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ’s example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of our Heavenly Father for her. By so doing, she can be a powerful influence for good in today’s world and meet the challenges of mortality. I have known such women, and they have been a guiding light to me.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld
‘In order to counteract income inequality, it’s essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.’ – Helene D. Gayle
‘It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges – but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times – will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.’ – Tony Hoare
‘For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.’ – Anita Elberse
‘I’ve always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives – what makes people tick. I’ve also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.’ – Barbara Kopple
‘I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.’ – Barbara Kopple
‘If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity as well as a privilege and an honor, then assignments and challenges should certainly be given to every member of the quorum.’ – James E. Faust
‘While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.’ – James E. Faust
‘One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.’ – James E. Faust
‘A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.’ – James E. Faust
‘All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone in the world is welcome to enter.’ – Mariam Naficy
‘While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.’ – Anne Fortier
‘Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.’ – Ken Ham
‘I don’t want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.’ – James Langevin
‘A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.’ – Charles B. Rangel
‘I like conflict – someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there’s no point in it. I just haven’t met anyone who’s made me feel that way.’ – Ranbir Kapoor
‘To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.’ – Sonakshi Sinha
‘There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It’s impossible.’ – Michael Bennet
‘That’s one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.’ – Jim Oberweis
‘There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.’ – Kenneth Chenault
‘In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.’ – Bill Gates
‘Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.’ – Robert Kiyosaki
‘One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.’ – Margaret Geller
‘Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.’ – Shashi Tharoor
‘Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that’s going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.’ – Donald Wuerl
‘One of the challenges of secularism is that it’s not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the church that sometimes it’s the frame of reference even for very good people, people who have a strong allegiance to the church.’ – Donald Wuerl
‘I have seen countless colleagues struggle to come to terms with retirement. I learned a lot from Richard Dunwoody when he was riding, and I completely understand why he took off and undertook what most people consider mad challenges.’ – Tony McCoy
‘I’ve played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.’ – Andrew Scott
‘By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.’ – Eduardo Paes
‘Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a driver’s skills, and I think that’s what makes it so beautiful to drive.’ – Romain Grosjean
‘As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.’ – Dominique Moceanu
‘Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that’s actually nonsense.’ – Bill McKibben
‘In every novel, I write about something – a place, an experience, an emotion – with which I’m intimately familiar, but it’s also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I’ll suffocate.’ – Julia Glass
‘One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.’ – Stanley Hauerwas
‘I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.’ – Martin Klebba
‘You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don’t have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living ‘Slow’ just means doing everything at the right speed – quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.’ – Carl Honore
‘I’m willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.’ – Brad Schneider
‘One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.’ – Eric Kandel
‘At the end of the day I’ll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.’ – Elaine Pagels
‘Global challenges require collective responses.’ – Hassan Rouhani
‘No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.’ – Hassan Rouhani
‘Every season challenges me to approach styling in a different way.’ – Brad Goreski
‘Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges.’ – Anne Wojcicki
‘Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.’ – Martin Rees
‘Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.’ – Ban Ki-moon
‘I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.’ – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
‘I am pleased to be part of Promontory’s steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.’ – Laurence D. Fink
‘I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn’t get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there’s no question that that’s the case.’ – Jim Yong Kim
‘One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.’ – Robert Zoellick
‘It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.’ – Robert Zoellick
‘I don’t really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.’ – L’Wren Scott
‘The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin
‘I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin
‘If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon
‘What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don’t give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it’s not easy.’ – Craig Mello
‘I don’t think journalism changes. It’s about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.’ – Soledad O’Brien
‘CoverGirl’s Girls CAN movement is perfectly aligned with my passion for helping young women overcome life’s challenges, and my commitment to highlighting girls’ successes. I am thrilled to partner with CoverGirl to embark on this exciting journey to improve the lives of girls and women in the world.’ – Soledad O’Brien
‘It’s been one of those things where anybody that’s played a sport at the professional level, there’s always a lot of challenges. And the one thing that’s always been a constant for me is Jesus Christ and my faith – and just knowing that my walk with Christ is steadily going up.’ – Tim Hudson
‘One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world’s nations.’ – Brian Behlendorf
‘I think everyone has their personal stands, and everyone has challenges in their life.’ – Anna Popplewell
‘In my sports or workout life, I like to prove to myself I can do something, whether it’s a half marathon or whatever it is. I like to take challenges that scare me because then once we’ve accomplished it, we feel stronger.’ – Kim Raver
‘Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.’ – John Yarmuth
‘To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill’s powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had long admired. Kennedy was hardly unmindful of how important a great inaugural address could be.’ – Robert Dallek
‘During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.’ – Stephen Kinzer
‘Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.’ – Anthony Fauci
‘Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.’ – Harbhajan Singh
‘When it comes to dealing with the world’s climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.’ – Thomas Friedman
‘When work seems like a job, I don’t do it anymore. I always want it to be something I’m interested in and something that challenges me.’ – Jill Wagner
‘I don’t have a type. I’ve dated so many different types, different personalities, different looks – from athletic to very non-athletic. The only thing I have to have is someone who is really motivated in life and challenges me. If I don’t have that, I get bored.’ – Jill Wagner
‘Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.’ – John Prendergast
‘I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.’ – Ger Duany
‘On my season of ‘Survivor,’ the tribes were split: a tribe of men versus a tribe of women. Even though the women kicked the men’s butts at the first two challenges, we were a hot mess at camp.’ – Jenna Morasca
‘I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.’ – Anthony Foxx
‘You’re a hero one day, you’re a villain another day. They say that’s football. When a manager does well, they’re applauded, when they don’t do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it – for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.’ – Vincent Tan
‘If you do a quantity challenge, the problem you’d face would be a starchy challenge. If it has a lot of potatoes, a lot of bread or fried elements, that’s difficult. With heat challenges, challenges that use the whole pepper are much, much easier than ones that use pepper extract. That’s concentrated, and also devoid of flavour. It’s just heat.’ – Adam Richman
‘The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I’m out in nature.’ – Michael Muller
‘If you’re missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.’ – Gary Sinise
‘Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.’ – David Blunkett
‘How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.’ – David Blunkett
‘I’m looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.’ – Tahar Rahim
‘I don’t spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I’ve ever been is Argentina.’ – Ian McKeever
‘When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you’ve got a name like Sebastian, you either learn to fight or to run.’ – Sebastian Coe
‘One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We’re much bigger than what people were in older times.’ – Colleen Atwood
‘Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.’ – Elizabeth Holmes
‘The more I heard, the more I’ve learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.’ – Daniel Snyder
‘We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.’ – Barack Obama
‘I’d like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.’ – Deval Patrick
‘I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century.’ – Marco Rubio
‘One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one’s ever talking about them and the challenges they’re going through.’ – Marco Rubio
‘Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.’ – Gautam Adani
”Ulysses’ is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.’ – Tom Paulin
‘There are always challenges to green screen.’ – Martin Freeman
‘From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, there’s going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.’ – Chris DeWolfe
‘Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.’ – Mike Love
‘When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East why they’re determined to go West, I hear what you’d expect: new challenges, different weather, boyfriends, girlfriends, to make a name… They laugh when I say, ‘But your poor mother.” – Susan Estrich
‘Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can’t get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.’ – Pico Iyer
‘Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.’ – Max von Sydow
‘Imagine what we could do for the world’s grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.’ – Peter Diamandis
‘I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.’ – Peter Diamandis
‘Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women – from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.’ – Gloria Steinem
‘China is still a developing country with a myriad of tasks and challenges.’ – Li Keqiang
‘I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
‘I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.’ – John Caudwell
‘Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.’ – Steven Sinofsky
‘I’m not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I’ve just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don’t have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.’ – Don Ameche
‘I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There’s lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.’ – Kelly McCreary
‘I suppose ‘My Hollywood’ is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era’s messes.’ – Mona Simpson
‘I like new challenges and new experiences.’ – Ramon Rodriguez
‘In terms of tackling different subjects, I can’t really think of anything I wouldn’t want to try; that’s the fun of it right? Each new style brings new challenges – not that you shouldn’t focus on one and master it, but it takes so long to make a film, you just want to have some variety.’ – Cary Fukunaga
‘Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.’ – Craig Venter
‘The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term ‘Big Data,’ has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.’ – Rick Smolan
‘I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life – how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.’ – Claire Denis
‘One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don’t have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.’ – Justin Trudeau
‘Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we’re facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we’re facing.’ – Justin Trudeau
‘Challenges in medicine are moving from ‘Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire’ to ‘Can we preserve the house intact?” – Elizabeth Blackburn
‘The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what’s good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.’ – Victoria Osteen
‘I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.’ – Joyce Banda
‘Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren’t aware of problems facing water.’ – Ann Bancroft
‘An independent Scotland – like all countries – will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.’ – Nicola Sturgeon
‘One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don’t want to have too much violence in it – which really limits what you can do. It’s important that they’re not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There’s grief in my books.’ – Alane Ferguson
‘I’m one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you’ve got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.’ – Malorie Blackman
‘Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.’ – Debbie Ford
‘We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what’s high quality and what’s not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There’s a lot of technical challenges in that.’ – Adam D’Angelo
‘Here’s how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it’s health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.’ – Tamara Tunie
‘If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work.’ – Anupam Kher
‘There are many challenges I face while working on a book. Working within deadlines and schedules is certainly one of the bigger ones for me. I want to create the best possible book I can for my readers with words and pictures – and that takes time to get it just right.’ – Tony DiTerlizzi
‘I’m especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.’ – Teresa Medeiros
‘Handwriting challenges aside, I love paper cards. I love the endless stewing involved in picking them out at the store. I love buying holiday stamps at the post office, and I love that ‘whoosh’ sound the cards make when I drop them into the mail slot.’ – Meghan Daum
‘There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.’ – Feng Zhang
‘From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.’ – Bernie Sanders
‘I don’t want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.’ – Aman Mojadidi
‘Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don’t have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others – people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they’ve put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren’t designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.’ – Wendy Kopp
‘How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?’ – Tony Tan
‘Our experience shows – and survey after survey reveals – institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.’ – Cherie Blair
‘Living the life I have lived – being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time – has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it’s rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.’ – Grace Gealey
‘Going forward, we are mindful of the challenges we face in the competitive retail landscape, but we have demonstrated that our concept of building compelling brands that focus on the customers’ lifestyles can produce superior results. We will not waver from that concept.’ – Richard Hayne
‘Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.’ – Baba Kalyani
‘One of our big challenges with the newsletter is that everyone thinks big stocks are safe. That’s not true at all. They’re only safe if the money is flowing there.’ – Louis Navellier
‘A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges – the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.’ – Nina Easton
‘Russia and the U.S. bear a special responsibility in world affairs. We have much to offer the rest of the world. Our common history testifies to this, and modern challenges demand that we work together.’ – Sergei Lavrov
‘What’s my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that… if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.’ – Maajid Nawaz
‘There’s a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It’s made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who’ve walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country’s faced.’ – Kevin McCarthy
‘Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It’s quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It’s not like I’m the guy who has the name under my own contract.’ – Chris Squire
‘Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.’ – Jeffrey Zeldman
‘With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.’ – Jeffrey Zeldman
‘I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it’s always worked.’ – Lillete Dubey
‘The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you’ll get good people.’ – Dan Shechtman
‘The challenges that the homeless face aren’t dissimilar to those in developing countries.’ – Leila Janah
‘Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.’ – Alexandra Adornetto
‘Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We’re world leaders in cheese.’ – Nick Harkaway
‘Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.’ – Edmund Phelps
‘For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.’ – Lori Wilde
‘We face two overlapping challenges. The first concerns real-time court-ordered interception of what we call ‘data in motion,’ such as phone calls, e-mail, and live chat sessions. The second challenge concerns court-ordered access to data stored on our devices, such as e-mail, text messages, photos, and videos – or what we call ‘data at rest.” – James Comey
‘The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities.’ – James Comey
‘I didn’t grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!’ – Kim Barnouin
‘One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.’ – Susanna Kearsley
‘Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health – and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.’ – Melanne Verveer
‘I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.’ – David Lagercrantz
‘We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.’ – Guilherme Leal
‘We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.’ – Edwin Soeryadjaya
‘Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.’ – Aaron Ciechanover
‘People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It’s because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.’ – Lynn Schusterman
‘For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.’ – Jeff Carlson
‘I’m competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that’s not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.’ – Donald Trump
‘First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?’ – Barack Obama
‘There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There’s a tremendous richness to that.’ – Rebecca Makkai
‘For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I’ve been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote ‘Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.’ It’s more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it’s my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.’ – David A. Adler
‘To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.’ – Elizabeth Thornton
‘I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of ‘The New York Times.’ It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.’ – Allan Gurganus
‘In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.’ – Mark Frauenfelder
‘Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn’t real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.’ – Hannah Ware
‘I’m not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges – which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo
‘Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.’ – Mark Zuckerberg
‘Like my father, I don’t want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I’m very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I’m very sensitive to that kind of issue.’ – Natalie Cole
‘I’m having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.’ – Joshua Bell
‘At Amazon, we were not working with the e-commerce division but with the Web services team. We started Flipkart completely from scrap. Moreover, the whole shopping behaviour and infrastructure challenges in the Indian market were different from that in the U.S. and European markets.’ – Sachin Bansal
‘The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That’s one of the biggest challenges.’ – Brendan Iribe
‘With the headset and motion tracker and all kinds of different future tracking technologies that we are R&Ding, there is just a huge amount of intelligence that has to be created. So we are looking at hiring some of the brightest minds out there to tackle some of those challenges and deliver the very best experience possible for the consumer.’ – Brendan Iribe
‘Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists – and by that, I don’t mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.’ – Ivanka Trump
‘The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she’s deeply grateful for her life. I don’t think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else.’ – Ivanka Trump
‘One new reality is global interconnectivity and the fact that all challenges must be addressed on the basis of ‘togetherness.’ Thus the most crucial factor in accepting the new reality and confronting its opportunities and risks is our willingness to develop shared norms on all levels.’ – Klaus Schwab
‘I’m a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we’re going to encounter in our own period of service.’ – Thomas S. Monson
‘As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I’m wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.’ – Brie Larson
‘The answers to all a startup’s challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.’ – Jay Samit
‘The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first ‘Spiderman’ game as well as ‘Fantastic Four,’ and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative.’ – Margaret Stohl
‘I believe we are our own inner hand – the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire – no matter what the challenges!’ – Karen Salmansohn
‘I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic puzzles; I love line-editing like I love perfectly organizing a bookshelf; I hate reviewing copyedits and the second round of proofreading because, by then, I’m getting pretty tired of my own words. They all have their own challenges, though.’ – Tim Pratt
‘In meeting the challenges of organic growth, BlackRock has the advantage of having an executive team greatly respected for what it has accomplished.’ – Carol Loomis
‘My career with the Navy and NASA gave me an incredible chance to showcase public service to which I am dedicated, and what we can accomplish on the big challenges of our day.’ – Scott Kelly
‘There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.’ – Nate Powell
‘Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world’s toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I’m hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S.’ – Mike Krieger
‘Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.’ – Tom Perez
‘My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic.’ – Ivanka Trump
‘One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they’ll pay for and which ones they won’t. That’s a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.’ – Craig Venter
‘There’s challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.’ – Bernard Sumner
‘Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.’ – Yves Behar
‘What most Americans don’t realize is a lot of the challenges we’re struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.’ – Cory Booker
‘Meet the challenges of the time.’ – Gordon Brown
‘I’m very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.’ – Cory Booker
‘Newark faces real challenges.’ – Cory Booker
‘I can’t separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.’ – Francois Hollande
‘Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That’s when difficulties rather than challenges arise.’ – Jenny Slate
‘Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy.’ – Michael Gove
‘My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers; we will have control over money we send to the European Union. We will have control over our own laws, and as a result, we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us.’ – Michael Gove
‘Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.’ – Avigdor Lieberman
‘Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life’s challenges. Everything from my studies to my father’s death was eased by my practice of it.’ – Christy Turlington
‘Life is always full of challenges. I believe you’re never happy unless you’re consistently making challenges for yourself.’ – Itzhak Perlman
‘Everything that has happened to me in my life has defined who I am, and all of the things leading up to being governor, that all came from overcoming challenges in childhood and overcoming challenges as I got older. When you have God, you quickly understand there’s nothing you can’t overcome.’ – Nikki Haley
”The End of Men’ was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology.’ – Rebecca Traister
‘One of the challenges of being a director is often you don’t get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it’s pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.’ – Thomas Kail
‘What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.’ – Obiageli Ezekwesili
‘Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I’ve seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.’ – Brian Lee
‘Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together – but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.’ – Loretta Lynch
‘As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.’ – Paul Watford
‘I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, ‘It’s the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.’ I’ve thought about that so many times in my life when things didn’t go right.’ – Bonnie Hunt
‘We have a number of challenges ahead of us.’ – Cory Gardner
‘Our country needs a new generation of leadership, and I believe that Marco Rubio presents this nation with the greatest possibilities and opportunities to meet the challenges of the next generation.’ – Cory Gardner
‘It’s hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.’ – Ted Deutch
‘America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, D.C.’ – Ron DeSantis
‘I feel honored to be an example for others. It makes it feel worthwhile to have overcome all the challenges I have encountered so I can help others to dream and also fulfill their dreams.’ – Terezinha Guilhermina
‘I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee.’ – Tony Cardenas
‘We don’t have a lot of technology people in Congress, so one of the basic things is to help people be educated on how technology works: what’s there, where is it headed, what some of the challenges and opportunities are.’ – Suzan DelBene
‘Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.’ – John Delaney
‘Washington faces many challenges these days, and today’s United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.’ – John Fleming
‘I want to see the next Reagan. I want somebody who brings out the good in Americans and challenges us to aspire to that North Star, someone who wants to empower our families and individuals and communities and let them be free to achieve their dreams. That’s what’s going to make this country again.’ – Bill Flores
‘We do have our challenges. Some things don’t always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what’s not working right.’ – Bill Flores
‘Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business… challenges that only seem to be growing for today’s entrepreneurs.’ – Sam Graves
‘I prefer that we sit down and craft a bill that addresses the many challenges we face, not only domestically, but as a world leader.’ – Gene Green
‘Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.’ – Gene Green
‘Instead of more talk about salmon and high-speed rails, more criticism of the Supreme Court or more praise for the Soviet’s Sputnik mission – President Obama should use his State of the Union Address to tell the American people the truth about the fundamental financial challenges our country faces.’ – Tim Griffin
‘I was a prosecutor for 25 years. I saw so many 15, 16, even 20 year-olds who could not read, had little hope that they would ever find work, faced more challenges than opportunities in life, dropped out of school at some point, and turned to crime.’ – Susana Martinez
‘I’ve always enjoyed challenges.’ – Alex Rodriguez
‘There is a deep-felt desire among the people to stand firmly together in dealing with the challenges of the future.’ – Ariel Sharon
‘I think there’s something about a character facing the huge problems and challenges of the contemporary world and meeting them with – head on with courage, allowing for darkness and mistake, but ultimately always moral. That’s incredibly, incredibly inspiring, and that’s honestly what I think.’ – Paul Greengrass
‘I’ve been in a long-term relationship, and I’ll tell you, it’s never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.’ – Leslie Odom, Jr.
‘You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.’ – Tom Cotton
‘I love challenges. And that’s just in life.’ – RJ Cyler
‘There’s a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don’t expect of you.’ – David Denman
‘I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I’ve got that on the road.’ – Bradley Wiggins
‘There have been a lot of challenges over the years that I have overcome.’ – Katie Taylor
‘We must ensure that more binding, durable, and enforceable fiscal rules go hand-in-hand with funding certainty for countries pursuing sound and sustainable economic policies. We need to keep pushing forward towards a comprehensive solution to the challenges of the eurozone.’ – Enda Kenny
‘I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.’ – Venus Williams
‘Every day, we as athletes face several challenges during the training process, and it is imperative that we approach each situation carefully and with continued precision.’ – Ashton Eaton
‘I’ve discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.’ – Selena Gomez
‘HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.’ – Ted Olson
‘The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero’s journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.’ – Alex Kurtzman
‘The women I see are very brave women, very strong women, women that are facing a lot of challenges and yet are up to the challenges and are making a very big effort. So I don’t see why one of them cannot become a president – one day.’ – Rula Ghani
‘A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view – something that genre fiction doesn’t do, although it sells more because it doesn’t disturb people’s innate sense of what a novel should be about. Often, people want characters to be nice, for example.’ – Justin Cartwright
‘The Purple Man helps Matt understand that his powers are unique, and maybe he is cut out for the hero biz after all. And Mr. Fear challenges Daredevil’s very philosophy; how does a Man Without Fear deal with a man who induces terror in everyone he meets?’ – Antony Johnston
‘My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.’ – Jillian Hervey
‘You don’t come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you’re gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You’ve got to work on your own car and fix it. It’s a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.’ – Robby Gordon