T Quotes
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“The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.”
“The challenge of running a business is that you have to assemble subordinates and literally treat them like they are below you. Because in your hierarchy, they are.”
“The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.”
“The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“The challenge of success and growth is more in what you are willing to leave behind than what you aspire towards. You have to be willing to lose sight of the shore to explore the seas. The lighter the load the higher you can soar.”
“The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there.”
“The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.”
“The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.”
“The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our minds.”
“The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.”
“The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads”
“The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle”
Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.”
“The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a painting. But we must respect the present form of our body. If you pull too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.”
“The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.”
Source: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.”
Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
“The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.”
“The challenge that comes into sharp relief is whether we are willing to give up all we have to follow Him, to know God. Are we willing to trade up? It's a question worth asking because the answer will shape your life one way or the other.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“The challenge, then, is to stop comparing yourself to others and craft a life and financial plan that are uniquely yours.”
Source: The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing
“The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.”
“The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.”
“The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.”
Source: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
“The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.”
“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”
“The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?”
“The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.”
“The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.”
“The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.”
“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”
“The challenge today is the majority of people are no longer curious. The thing that makes them playful, wondrous, and ask questions has been replaced with fear, fight, and obedience.”
“The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.”
“The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.”
“The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.”
“The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.”
“The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.”
“The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.”
“The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?”
“The challenge - which is also at the centre - is that what illuminates the process of letting go of certainty, control, planning, clear-cut goals, and so much more may feel settling even as it separates us from those we want to help.
This letting go requires cultivation in the trust of the innate processes that support the movement towards healing, something that grows with time and experience, especially when compassion for this depth of challenge to our need for security is present.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.”
“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.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation
“The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.”
“The challenge with all television - all series television as you get into later seasons to give people what they have come to, what they've become familiar with and what the qualities of the shows that they recognize without letting it get staled.”
“The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.”
“The challenge with hidden racism in the shape of discrimination is that although it exists in most countries and within humanity at large, it is not a normal state of being. Do you ever see young children and babies of various skin colours and cultures rejecting each other on the playground? If anything, they tend to get curious and come close to discover their differences, or they simply don’t notice any. If a child ever does discriminate or reject another child because of her or his colour or cultural origin, it is always due to a learned behaviour. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. We take it in, like air based on our environment. All types of racism are taught. None of us are born judging each other. Judgement is a taught behaviour.”
“The challenge with life planning is that it causes conflicts between the Standard LifeScript and the one you want for yourself.”
Source: The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing
“The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.”
“The challenge with running from God is that you will always run into HIM.”
“The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and all of them prefer scenes to be done a different way.”