Challenge Quotes - page 71

I would just like to challenge the idea that it is necessary to have a lot of women, or a particular number, on a board. Business is very, very competitive and you should take the performance of women in another competitive area, which is sport where [men] have no strength advantage. Chess, bridge, poker - women come absolutely nowhere. I think that just has to be borne in mind. (Stuart Wheeler)
Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge. View quote
Christoph Waltz
As to Russia, we spoke about it a number of times and we reaffirmed that at the forum again and also agreed on that in the final document. We are going to fully comply with our commitments. In the nearest future we will begin the ratification of these agreements and will conduct the necessary domestic procedures. These issues are highly relevant for us.I stated this at the last plenary session. Let me remind you that according to the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, the warming in Russia is happening 2.5 times faster than the average global warming. This is a major challenge for us. We must realise that. This is the reason for floods, and for permafrost thawing in the areas where we have fairly big cities. We must be able to understand how to react to the climate changes underway there. View quote
Vladimir Putin
Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge. View quote
Vernon Howard
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves. View quote
Vernon Howard
Lincoln was commander-in-chief in this old battle; he wanted above all things to be commander-in-chief of the new peace. He understood that battle there must be; that when a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up; that the fight must be fought through to a decision so clear that it is accepted as being beyond recall. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. View quote
Nelson Mandela
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have. View quote
Nelson Mandela
This is the challenge facing modern man. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Through our scientific genius we made of the world a neighborhood, but we failed through moral commitment to make of it a brotherhood, and so we've ended up with guided missiles and misguided men. And the great challenge is to move out of the mountain of practical materialism and move on to another and higher mountain which recognizes somehow that we must live by and toward the basic ends of life. We must move on to that mountain which says in substance. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
I suppose I want to leave a word with you tonight, that seems to have been applicable and important to everyone lately. And that is - remember Mercy, Love and Forgiveness, because this seems to be lacking, and causing and creating a lot of problems for people because it is so lacking. So remember that, first and foremost. And if you're already doing a good job at that, you think - good for you! Step it up a bit! That's your challenge. As for me, I must work on these things always too! View quote
Ysabella Brave
Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware. View quote
Barry Long
The situation can be controlled and even reversed but it demands co-operation on a scale and intensity beyond anything achieved so far...I realise that there are any number of vital causes to be fought for, I sympathise with people who work up a passionate concern about the all too many examples of inhumanity, injustice, and unfairness, but behind all this hangs a really deadly cloud. Still largely unnoticed and unrecognised, the process of destroying our natural environment is gathering speed and momentum. If we fail to cope with this challenge, all the other problems will pale into insignificance. View quote
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions. View quote
Karl Popper
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science. View quote
Ben Stein
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. View quote
Carlos Santana
[T]here are some who challenge the expediency of the Imperial character of this realm. Having attempted, and failed, to enfeeble our colonies by their policy of decomposition, they may, perhaps, now recognize in the disintegration of the United Kingdom a mode which will not only accomplish, but precipitate their purpose. The immediate dissolution of Parliament will afford an opportunity to the nation to decide upon a course which will materially influence its fortunes and shape its destiny. Rarely in this century has there been an occasion more critical. The power of England and the peace of Europe will largely depend on the verdict of the country. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
We're facing the greatest challenge there is in football: to play against an Italian team that only needs a draw. View quote
Jürgen Klopp
When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that. View quote
Bono
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay. (Plato)
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. View quote
Walt Disney
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. View quote
Walt Disney
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. View quote
Steven Spielberg
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. View quote
Noam Chomsky