Quotes with challenging

  • Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
  • I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
  • I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.

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  • George Bernard Shaw All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alan Alda Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Billy Childish Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Alec Baldwin Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Ashe Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Brooke Burke Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Parry I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.
    As quoted in Bruce Parry: My job doesnt allow me a private life by Cassandra Jardine in The Telegraph (19 September 1007)
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  • Adam Clayton I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Alice S. Rossi Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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  • Bell Hooks Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Anthony Doerr Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bill Williams The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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