Challenge Quotes - page 5

The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble. (Bel Kaufman)
The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom. View quote
Adrienne Rich
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at which you fail. You will learn from them all. You'll learn about the world at large and about other people but most important, you'll learn about yourself. View quote
Richie Sambora
Our task then is always to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed meaning and values of the few-and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false faces, and on until it surrenders its insight, its truth. View quote
Ralph Ellison
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die. View quote
Robert Fisk
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. View quote
Arnold Bennett
Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. View quote
Michael Moorcock
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want. (Jimmy Hoffa)
We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas. View quote
Jack Layton
This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief. View quote
Joseph Silk
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. View quote
Amelia Earhart
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better. View quote
Reggie Fils-Aimé
There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference- one that looks like it would be fun- and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this- just about everywhere in the company. View quote
Jack Welch
Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge. View quote
Cesar Chavez
The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off. View quote
Steven Pressfield
But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. (Harold Pinter)
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? View quote
Douglas Adams
If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man. View quote
Rod Serling
The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done. View quote
Seth Godin
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. View quote
Seth Godin