Challenge Quotes - page 4

It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. [...] Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. [...] The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions-for these are our issues, not nature's. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. View quote
Andrew Wiles
Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. View quote
Zell Miller
Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to. View quote
Maya Angelou
I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice –are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power? View quote
Al Gore
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. View quote
Al Gore
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family. (Frank McCourt)
If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 4 600 000 000 years old. It could end in an afternoon. View quote
Arundhati Roy
The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike. View quote
Lance Armstrong
[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me. View quote
Kirsten Gillibrand
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now. View quote
Berenice Abbott
Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education. View quote
George H. W. Bush
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. View quote
Rebecca West
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions. View quote
Lee Krasner
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. (Orhan Pamuk)
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road. View quote
Vin Scully
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. View quote
Kobe Bryant
Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones. View quote
Azar Nafisi
As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing. View quote
Bell hooks