Big Challenges Quotes:

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

- Roger Crawford

topic: Encouraging, Optimistic, Adversity, Life Challenges, Optional

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

source: YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance, Inspirational Hard Work, Last Lecture

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Change, Meaningful, Make The Right Choice, Courage To Change

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

- Randy Pausch

topic: Happiness, Success, Peace, Inspirational Hard Work, Motivational Work

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

- Randy Pausch

topic: Wall, Inspirational Life, People, Inspirational Hard Work, Cards You're Dealt

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Adversity, Obstacles And Challenges

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

- Bernie Mac

source: Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.25, Harper Collins

topic: Challenges, Bigs, Life Challenges, Big Challenges

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

- Robert Redford

topic: Success, Generations, World, Energy Security, Next Generation

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

- Barbara Marciniak

source: Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

topic: Light, Challenges, Lessons, Life Challenges, Gems

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

- Jan de Bont

topic: Challenges, Film, Bigs, Raiders, Big Challenges

I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.

- Rainn Wilson

topic: Communication, Thinking, Self, Communicators, Big Challenges

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

- Clay Shirky

topic: Challenges, Done, Internet, Public Good, Big Challenges

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

topic: Cancer, Diversity, Challenges, Big Challenges

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

- Richard Branson

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Fit, Big Challenges

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

- Rian Johnson

topic: People, Challenges, Monkeys, Big Challenges

The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.

- Chris Pratt

source: Source: collider.com

topic: People, Challenges, Trying, Pointing, Big Challenges

My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Challenges, Bigs, Big Challenges

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

- Darren Aronofsky

topic: Nice, People, Challenges, Big Challenges

I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.

- Barack Obama

source: "After the Great Recession". www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

topic: School, Thinking, Skills, Big Challenges

The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Moving, Men, Political, J Edgar Hoover, Hoover

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

source: Source: www.irinnews.org

topic: Big Challenges

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

- Baran Odar

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fun, Challenges, Shooting, Big Challenges

Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government. And we will work hand-in- hand on a positive agenda to tackle America's big challenges.

- Paul Ryan

source: "How'd He Do It?". www.wsj.com. November 14, 2016.

topic: Government, Hands, America, Republican Government, Big Challenges

I've always seen myself as a small entity, and it will always stay like that. I'm not changing. But I think the big challenge for me taking on the Dior thing is to see how I can connect that to such a huge institution.

- Raf Simons

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Dior, Big Challenges

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

- Carl Zimmer

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Challenges, Viruses, Figures, Big Challenges

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

- Martin Wolf

source: "Sustaining growth is the century’s big challenge" by Martin Wolf, www.ft.com. June 11, 2008.

topic: Challenges, Growth, Century, Big Challenges

One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.

- D.A. Wallach

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Creativity, Challenges, Lazy, Big Challenges

I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.

- Famke Janssen

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Actors, Big Challenges

It's really tough for the small farmer to have a successful business. That is the big challenge - all the laws are designed for larger corporations. And that's going to be the challenge in this country; it goes beyond food.

- Robert Kenner

source: Source: www.cuesa.org

topic: Country, Successful, Law, Big Challenges

The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to just keep on working, prepping, reading and imagining, all the way through, but the biggest challenge is always to let go of all that and just be open to others. That's what we do, as actor. We play with each other and we stimulate each other, and we have to be prepared to be stimulated by the other. That's always my big challenge.

- Hugo Weaving

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Big Challenges

For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle.

- Luke Evans

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Play, Challenges, Violin, Big Challenges

The minute you become a parent, you're always going to wonder if you're doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on a daily basis. It's a big challenge, and you can't help wondering if you're doing anything wrong. You have to trust your instincts and do what feels right for you.

- Emily Deschanel

source: "Emily Deschanel Talks BONES Season 8, Brennan Getting Shot, and Her Hope to Direct an Episode". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 11, 2013.

topic: Parent, Challenges, Helping, Trust Your Instincts, Big Challenges

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working.

- Devon Aoki

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Shoes, Clothes, Catwalk, Big Challenges

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

- Carol Moseley Braun

topic: Believe, People, Challenges, Big Challenges

Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?

- Erno Rubik

topic: Nice, Home, Sight, Way Home, Big Challenges

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

- Shigeru Miyamoto

topic: Player, Garden, People, Big Challenges

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

- William J. Clinton

source: State of the Union Address, 23 Jan. 1996

topic: Government, Volunteer, People, Big Government, Big Challenges

I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.

- Denise Van Outen

topic: Years, Challenges, Next, Peru, Big Challenges

I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip in November. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip 3-3. Now, this is a big one. All these teams Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us.

- Scott Skiles

topic: Team, Reality, New Orleans, Big Challenges, Sacramento

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

- Marc Maron

source: Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.75, Spiegel & Grau

topic: Disappointment, People, Challenges, Chisels, Big Challenges

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

- Michael J. Fox

source: "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

topic: Husband, Challenges, Patient, Parkinson's, Tracy

Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up...

- Barack Obama

topic: People, Challenges, Youth, Big Challenges

If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

- Robert Redford

topic: Issues, Challenges, Way, Persian Gulf, Persistance

Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

- Karch Kiraly

topic: Volleyball, Strong, Guy, Big Challenges

No matter whether your life is pleasant or good; whether you are having big challenges or no challenges, your state of your mind has everything to do with how you will relate to your experiences.

- Louise Hay

topic: Challenges, Mind, Matter, Big Challenges

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

- Larry Page

topic: Graduation, Dream, Dog, Mega, Big Challenges

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

- John Taylor Gatto

source: John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

topic: Unique, Individual, Should, Wherever You Are, Road Maps

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

- Azim Premji

topic: Inspirational, Father, Years, Big Challenges