“I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.” PeopleWorldWarEndsWould BeChallengesWonderEconomyCenturyApproachMeetingsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiCapitalistWorld War I21st Century Author:Sanford I. Weill
“Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.” UsedSpiritChallengesApproachBrilliant Author:Martin Parr
“Bob Beaudine challenges you to think differently. His unique approach to life and business has helped elevate many careers.” ThinkingChallengesCareersApproachUniqueBob Author:Roger Goodell
“We all experience doubts and fears as we approach new challenges. The fear diminishes with the confidence that comes from experience and faith. Sometimes you just have to go for it and see what happens. Jumping into the battle does not guarantee victory, but being afraid to try guarantees defeat” TryingDoeSometimesHappensChallengesDoubtVictoryBattleApproachDefeatGuaranteesDiminishJumpingBeing AfraidNew ChallengesDoubt And Fear Author:Brian Goodell
“Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.” SometimesReasonProblemAbleChallengesLeaderSuccessfulApproachEntrepreneurConventionsProblem SolvingDnaInnovativeSuccessful EntrepreneursMarket Leaders Author:Richard Branson
“I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.” LooksPlayBeautifulChallengesAttentionQualityBuildingMaterialsIntegrityApproachModelsSmartConceptsResponseGuitarDetailsExpertsPackagesAlexSelectedAcousticsStunningCraftsmanshipAttention To Detail Author:Alex Lifeson
“With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.” SeemsLyingPurposeSidesChallengesCommonAcceptingFailingCenturySceneApproachCapacityIdealsLaborManagementProfitPossessionProofContraryDoctrineDespiteGapsTeamworkPermitEmployedEmployersCommon GoodCooperatives Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.” SelfGirlChallengesAbilityAttitudeSituationBoysTeacherSelf EsteemFailureApproachIncludingEsteemFactorsAttributes Book:Shame: The Exposed Self Source: Shame: The Exposed Self
“The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.” KnowsWayChallengesFieldsApproachBest WayDumbOddsBoldnessNew Challenges Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.” IfsWorldWayNeedsFoundChallengesAnswersPoorEffortBusinessPoliticianApproachConsciousTasksVoteProfitFinishedChanging The World Author:Bill Gates
“When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.” GovernmentOpportunityChallengesSawsApproachPopulationAustralianAgeingPrerequisites Author:Julie Bishop
“Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.” TryingPoliticalOrderChallengesDestinyEconomicMovementApproachHarmonyCorporateClassicEmpoweringLiberalismExcessOrthodoxyPopulist Author:Jim Hightower
“The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by expanding it smartly. The challenge is figuring out what's the best way to do that without totally jumping off of a cliff.” WayKindTurnsChallengesInspireApproachBuiltBest WayJumpingExpandingCliffsNew ExperiencesJumping Off Author:Steve Gaynor
“There is no nation on the planet better able to adapt to this change than our nation. We must able to work collaboratively with others. We must anticipate these threats before they happen. This is the new sort of challenge, the new sort of threat that does, in fact, require new thinking, fresh approaches and new leadership.” ThinkingDoeFactsHappensAbleNationsChallengesPlanetsApproachThreatAnticipate Author:Hillary Clinton
“The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.” FeelingsDifficultGoalChallengesInterestingWalkingMoonSafeApproachExcitingSurfaceFlightPilotsVery InterestingPredictableLandingElation Author:Neil Armstrong
“I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksKindI CanImportantArtistCan DoChallengesPiecesApproachRedYeahFlagsRed Flags Author:Cillian Murphy
“I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real. Moreover, I think it's about constantly challenging classical ideas by bringing in unexpected and different elements; for example a long, elegant evening skirt paired with a simple t-shirt on the red carpet. I think this approach is the future.” ThinkingLongIdeasDifferentRealTodayEasyChallengesSimpleModernExampleElementsApproachRedNotionEveningShirtsUnexpectedElegantT ShirtCarpetGlamourSkirtsRed CarpetEffortless Author:Roksanda Ilincic
“When we align our lives with spiritual laws, challenges remain, but we can approach them with arms open wide, ready to dance.” SpiritualLawChallengesOur LivesReadyArmsApproachWide Author:Dan Millman
“I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.” IfsThinkingMindPersonsEndsProblemChallengesApproachPassionateDeterminedKeep GoingNew ApproachChallenging Myself Author:Lily Collins
“As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.” WayWritingTryingBookChallengesPoetApproachPainterNovelistsPushingNew WaysPush YourselfChallenge Yourself Book:Conversations with Paul Auster Source: Conversations with Paul Auster
“To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.” LanguageChallengesGayApproachStrikesPersistAnti Gay Author:Mallory Ortberg
“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.” WritingLittlesCharacterFactsStoriesHandsReadingFeltBitsProcessImaginationChallengesMemoriesSimpleEqualApproachLittle BitResearchExploringWriting ProcessMy ImaginationReading More Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.” PeopleWellsMeanDifferentCommunityChallengesFictionInformationApproachScience FictionNarrativeColourHubDifferent Approach Author:Nalo Hopkinson
“General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And putting together the probabilities of quantum mechanics with the certainty of general relativity, that's been the big challenge and that's why we have been excited about string theory, as it's one of the only approaches that can put it together.” Has BeensBigsHappensTogetherChallengesTheoryApproachExcitedCertaintyStringsQuantumProbabilityMechanicFrameworkRelativityQuantum MechanicsBig ChallengesString TheoryGeneral Relativity Author:Brian Greene
“If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.” PeopleIfsWantTryingChallengesStepsStrangeApproachTraditionalAggressivePeculiar Author:Casey Spooner
“If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.” IfsThinkingYearsLongHas BeensStatesLastsFacesTermChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEconomicBuildingParticularApproachEuropeHistoricalAidsDevelopingLong TermAgricultureProximityLong Term RelationshipHistorical Context Author:Dambisa Moyo
“In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.” ChallengesRolesCasesApproachExtremesIslamicWomen In Society Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the architects of this very aggressive American interventionist foreign policy, you know, really stand up to Russia, challenge them, not only Russia but China. He's changed his tune now and is basically advocating for a much more diplomatic and collaborative approach to the other power centers of the world that are just kind of moving on without us right now.” KnowsWorldKindMovingNamesChallengesImpossiblePolicyChangedRight NowApproachChinaRussiaTunesAggressiveArchitectForeign PolicyDiplomaticAdvocatingCenter Of The World Author:Jill Stein
“Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.” WayMayHas BeensEnoughMomentsFactsLiteratureNamesChallengesHalfGoneSkillsApproachModelsTrainingMethodEdgesAccomplishLive LifeAccomplishedClimbsClimbingDaringSoberFeatsClimbersNonconformistAlpineLife On The Edge Author:Steve House
“ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.” IfsThinkingWantTryingWellsTermChallengesUnitedDealsCasesTrumpApproachEvidenceThreatWestBusyChinaRussiaChiefsAdministrationReasonableAssetsIsisRise Of China Author:Daniel Fried
“In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.” KindSelfReasonPlayStoriesArtistSongChallengesMy OwnNovelPossibilityObjectsApproachModelsUnderstoodRemainsExcellenceArtisticGenreShort StoryFloatingSense Of SelfReggae Author:Kwame Dawes
“As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.” ThinkingNeedsHardSocialChallengesGreaterCostApproachSolutionsSellsAcknowledgeUncomfortableOur Time Author:Simon Mainwaring
“I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.” WorldWayWritingTryingBelieveDifferentStoriesCertainI BelieveChallengesCreativeSeeingLessonsSkillsApproachHollywoodSeriesDifferent ThingsNew WaysExposingWorld SeriesDifferent ApproachWorking With Others Author:George R. R. Martin
“I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasStoriesRomanceMovingHateChallengesOpinionLaughingComedyDramaApproachToolsI HateOriginalsGenreSettlingViewersOpen MindedMake You LaughNever SettleBeing Open Minded Author:Jason Reitman
“I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.” ThinkingIdeasCharacterMightHappensWaitingTermChallengesWorryApproachLifetimeStudiosGenreSci FiParadigmParadigm ShiftForward Thinking Author:J. Michael Straczynski