Challenge
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." Oscar Wilde
"To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains." Mary Pettibone Poole
"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, 
going more or less in one direction
 until we splash into something
 that forces us to find a new course." 
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." Leonardo da Vinci
"When the wind changes direction, there are those who build walls and those who build windmills." Chinese proverb
"The ultimate challenge in life is to neither allow our fantasies to bring us too much suffering nor to prevent us from living fully." Earon Davis [May 27, 2009
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"But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." Randy Pausch The Last Lecture
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005) [May 09, 2008
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"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." Arnold Glasow
"Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?" Wayne W. Dyer
"Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent to crowd out the important." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing." Adolph Monod
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think." James McCosh
“The greatest battles of our life are the ones we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.” David McKay
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” Ralph Blum
“In the battle between the river and the rock, the river will always win. Not through strength but by persistence.” Confucius
“Whether you won or lost the night before, it's a brand new game ... It's my job and my coaches’ job to remind the players that no matter what happened last night, it doesn't mean anything today. This is not like football where you have to wait one week to recover. You just have to get up every day and fight. If you carry it over, you're a loser.” Ozzie Guillon, manager of the 2005 World Champions [May 31, 2005
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“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.” Henry Moore
“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.” James Ramesy Ullman |
