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“The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.”

Author:Pearl Zhu

Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as

“The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.”

World Stories Care Challenges Hurt Grace Dresses Bones Fancy Who Cares

Author:Katherine Paterson

“The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.”

People Country Helping Action Values Turns Culture Challenges Principles Unique Determination Universal Infinite Agendas Willingness Concrete Sensitivity

Author:Thoraya Obaid

“The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.”

Important Challenges Attention Focus

Author:Steve Backley

“The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.”

Thinking Light Wanted Faces Moving Challenges Emotion Cameras Investment Things Change Dolls

Author:Laurie Simmons

“The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a doll face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes.”

Thinking Moving Challenges Emotion Investment Things Change

Author:Laurie Simmons

“The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.”

“The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you run your business in a way that will help achieve social objectives?”

Ifs Way Persons Helping Running Social Challenges Achieve Conscious Objectives Private Sector

Author:Muhammad Yunus

Source: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

“The challenge I think at first consideration is always a mixture of the creative opportunity and the finances. From the studio perspective, that's what they're looking to balance.”

Thinking Firsts Opportunity Challenges Creative Perspective Balance Studios Finance Consideration Mixtures

Author:Hutch Parker

“The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding the camera and you're adding the idea of adaptation. So the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material that you love and yet not be afraid to step outside of it and introduce elements into it that make it exist in a satisfying, exciting way cinematically.”

Way Ideas Moving Challenges Steps Particular Materials Elements Exciting Cameras Musical Satisfying Introducing Adaptation Unifying Moving Parts

Author:Marc E. Platt

“The challenge in Iraq is to provide a security plan such that a political process can go forward. I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me say 12 million Iraqi voted. But it's an indication about the desire for people to live in a free society. That's what that means. The only way to defeat Al Qaida ideology in the long term is to defeat it through another ideology, a competing ideology, one that - where government responds to the will of the people.”

People Mean Long Political Desire Term Challenges Security Tired Defeat Ideology Long Term Competing

Author:George W. Bush

“The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.”

Feelings Challenges Middle Balance Fulfilled Overwhelmed Battlefields Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Amanda Palmer

“The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.”

Writing Believe Made Film Used Song I Believe Challenges Cutting Directors Finals Leaving Studios Employment Makers Initials Select Walt Animator

Author:Richard Sherman

“The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.”

Challenges Consciousness Design Complexes

Author:Robert Greenberg

“The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.”

Writing Process Challenges Intimate Going To Work Introverted

Author:Gloria Estefan

“The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.”

Running Loses Challenges Principles Trouble Sight Founders

Author:Jesse Helms

“The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.”

Challenges Ordinary Ultimate

Author:James Tate

Source: Selected poems

“The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.”

Years Character Challenges Interesting Numbers Rich Creating Following Warrants

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not a goal that can be compromised. One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come.”

Way Made Earth Choices Goal Challenges Economy Generations Climate One Way Decline Our Generation

Author:Lester R. Brown

“The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.”

Body Care Challenges Decision Policy Position Health Care Boards Decision Making Exploding

Author:Arthur Caplan

“The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.”

Turns Challenges Information Messages Data Designer Graphic Graphic Designer

Author:Katherine McCoy

“The challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this is also a universal phenomenon. There's also disenchantment with politics in Europe.”

People Giving Challenges Phenomenon Disenchantment

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.”

Vision Innovation Digitalization It Innovation

Author:Pearl Zhu

Source: It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”

Children Moments Challenges Present Moment Live In The Moment Live In The Present Present Time Live In The Now Future Time

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The challenge is… learning to be my own best friend instead of my own worst critic.”

Self Love Self Acceptance

Author:Kristen Butler

“The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.”

“The challenge is not finding the attitude, but it's really just being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust. The attitude is not something that I intended or created.”

Trying Different Challenges Attitude Willing Directors Findings Different Things Just Being

Author:Chris Pratt

“The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.”

Challenges Company Entrepreneur Endure Worthy

Author:James C. Collins

“The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.”

Sound Challenges Special Something Special

Author:Gustavo Dudamel

“The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.”

Whole Challenges Perfect Inspiring

Author:Jane Fonda

“The challenge is not to get caught up in the hoopla. To understand what goes into winning - stay focused, you've got to be prepared, you need an edge. If you get lost in all the other stuff you're not going to be prepared to play well.”

Ifs Needs Wells Play Winning Lost Stuff Challenges Prepared Edges Caught Focused Be Prepared Caught Up Stay Focused

Author:Tom Thibodeau

“The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.”

Time Challenges Manage Time Management

Author:Stephen Covey

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.”

Ifs Country Enough Games Challenges Plans Team Our Country Uniforms Don't Change Inspirational Team Game Plan

Author:Sarah Palin

“The challenge is right now, I call it the death of critical thinking in America. It's a very worrisome development. More and more people seem to be resisting the idea of standing back and asking questions about something, challenging their beliefs.”

People Thinking Belief Challenges Critical Thinking

Author:Lester Holt

“The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.”

Ifs Littles Ideas Enough Challenges Simple Journey Becoming Waste Embrace Starting Quitting Finding Yourself Bad Ideas Serials Dip Quitter

Author:Seth Godin

Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

“The challenge is that if you stimulate your immune system, it might get over-stimulated. And it might actually start causing harm to normal cells in your body. So we have to work a balance between attacking the cancer and not attacking yourself.”

Ifs Body Might Challenges Balance Normal Cancer Harm Your Body Cells Get Over Attacking Immune Immune System

Author:Tyler Jacks

“The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.”

Challenges Television Crap

Author:Jeff Corwin

“The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.”

Bigs Culture Challenges Vision

Author:Jonathan Dimbleby

“The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.”

Thinking Matter Helping Stories Might Happens Challenges Vision Reader Mechanic Collaborating

Author:John Green

“The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.”

Challenges Differences Struggle

Author:David Satcher

“The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.”

Challenges Vision Design Future Innovation Strategy Surviving

Author:Peter Ellyard

“The challenge is to do your best when doing a little less than that will actually get you greater rewards.”

Best Challenge Reward Little

Author:Nitya Prakash

“The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.”

Challenges Destiny Our Destiny

Author:David Richo

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.”

People Challenges Focus Listening Happenings

Author:Amanda Palmer

“The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.”

Ifs Hard Challenges Interesting Talking Over It Spears

Author:Chelsea Handler

“The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.”

Challenges Poet

Author:Mary Oliver

“The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.”

Challenges Wonder You Like It Timeliness

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.”

Political Voice Challenges Views Conviction Officers Advocating Islamists Coups Abhorrent

Author:Orhan Pamuk

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