T Quotes
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“The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!”
Source: Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love
“The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.”
“The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.”
“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”
Source: Living History
“The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,” said her grandmother. “He is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.” “He isn’t husband material.” “What I have described is perfect husband material.” said her grandmother. “I don’t want a husband.” “Jessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.”
“The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.”
“The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.”
“The challenge is to write about real things magically.”
“The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't necessarily mean we will change.”
Source: Someday Is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
“The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.”
“The challenge lies in escaping the triangle of social democracy, anarchism, and Leninism, and moving on to something “higher” (read, other) rather than declaring two of them dead and idolizing the third.”
“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything significant. It is of course impossible to read, for a sincere book would demand not only time, but also a clear emotional lawn around the text in which associations and anxieties could emerge and be disentangled. He will perhaps only ever do one thing well in his life.
For this particular combination of tiredness and nervous energy, the sole workable solution is wine. Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.”
Source: Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose
“The challenge may not go away when you pray, and when it doesn't go away, it simply means God believes that He has trained you enough to face it and win.”
“The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.”
“The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.”
“The challenge of a fledgling is catching up with the shadows of his predecessors and shining light for his successors.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“The challenge of being a good listener is not a new problem, but technology makes it easier to cover it up. We can be on the phone or in a meeting, and keep up just enough, saying the right thing at the right time, while being engaged in something else on our devices.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.”
“The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accept us. Being vulnerable, however, requires that we come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like us, and that it is okay. Not everyone needs to like us.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.”
“The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.”
“The challenge of digitalization is to have a harmonized vision and build a customized structure to enforce open communication and collaboration.”
Source: Digital Hybridity
“The challenge of disparate systems, says Bunton, extends past technology and process. Disparate systems have a direct impact on the way employees think about their jobs. "If your legacy systems require users to break down processes into little pieces, you wind up with people who cannot think holistically about their problems," she says.”
Source: Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
“The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.”
“The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.”
“The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.”
“The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.”
“The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.”
“The challenge of future artificial intelligence is to convert the modern data driven society to value driven society.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Intelligence
“The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.”
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”
“The challenge of life and survival today is that opportunities often come with the requirement to do things you wouldn’t normally do.
If you have strong morals and choose not to do them, someone else will, and they’ll receive everything that was meant for you.
People with high moral standards suffer for their righteousness, not because they lack merit, talent, are incompetent, unskilled, or incapable, but because they choose integrity over compromise. Society has shifted its standards to the point where being good often leads to suffering, while those who abandon their principles, ethics and morals tend to prosper and live luxurious, lavish lifestyles.”
“The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE”
“The challenge of life is to change the circumstances of our birth into more personal and enjoyable ones and thenceforth to proceed into contented waning.”
“The challenge of life is to learn how to love”
“The challenge of life is to make you capable of love. People are afraid of love.
When we meet life's challenge, then love becomes possible. If you
succeed in this you have succeeded in bringing yourself to God.”
Source: God is Everywhere: You are Divine, Everything is Divine
“The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium
“The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.”
Source: Novels 1984–2000: What Kind of Day Did You Have? / More Die of Heartbreak / A Theft / The Bellarosa Connection / The Actual / Ravelstein
“The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)”
“The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.”
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”
“The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.”
“the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.”
Source: The Penguin book of women's lives
“The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.”
“The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.”
Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
“The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us”
“The challenge of poetry is to convey meaning in very few words. We must grab onto the core of something and present it to the reader so that they can’t look away.”
Source: Writing: A Spiritual Voice
“The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.”