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“Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.”

Men Has Beens Opportunity Sports Women Challenges Team Effects Benefits Direct Independence Competition Welfare Teamwork Fewer Units Identification American Society

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.”

America Nations President Challenges Successful Praying Being Successful I Pray

Author:Mitt Romney

“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”

“When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.”

Source: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

“Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.”

Use Science Challenges Special Computer Majors Losing Mathematics Appeals

Author:Noga Alon

“As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis.”

Needs Helping Stories Science Order Force Challenges Too Much Achieve Like You Mathematics Towers Mathematician Competent Ivory Synthesis Ivory Tower Welding

Author:Apostolos Doxiadis

“At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.”

Years Helping Home Challenges Poverty Security Foundation Investment Prosperity Stability American Leadership

Author:Hillary Clinton

“That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.”

Said Problem Christian Challenges Religious Movement Roots Deny Graves Socialism Solidarity Fanaticism November Poland

Book:God and Government

Source: God and Government

“We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.”

“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.”

“It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.”

Motivational Challenges Leadership Leader Struggle Duty Battle Prize Our Future Worthwhile Your Future

Book:Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

“My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.”

Moments Character Bigs Motivational School Force Challenges Decision Education Lessons Obstacles Scare Life Lesson Classroom Right Decision Define You Make The Right Decision

Author:Bear Grylls

“You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.”

“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.”

Self Girl Challenges Ability Attitude Situation Boys Teacher Self Esteem Failure Approach Including Esteem Factors Attributes

Book:Shame: The Exposed Self

Source: Shame: The Exposed Self

“I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.”

Feels Play Whole Games Enjoy Challenges Chance Levels Roles Team Fans Highest Concepts Exciting Intense Feel Good Soccer Teamwork Satisfying Teammate

Author:Mia Hamm

“I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me...because so much of how I access character is through my body.”

Persons Has Beens Character Body Reality Actors Easy Challenges Work Family Generations Human Nature Health Transformation Strategy Individuality Access Personal Transformation

Author:Kerry Washington

“The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.”

Challenges Views Effort Objectives Steady Dedicated Accumulation Imposing Search For Truth Edifice Small Efforts

Author:Charles Hard Townes

“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”

“Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.”

“When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.”

World Looks Hard Spiritual Water Challenges Practice Clear Impossible Air Tree Happenings Roots Fellows Sacred Species Enormous Our World Joyful Communion Spiritual Practice

Book:Greening of the Self

Source: Greening of the Self

“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either”

Able Action Choices Names Challenges Produce Creating Tasks Heavy Egypt Magician Frogs Spurs Heathen Free Choice Taunting Lice

Book:Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation

Source: Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation

“The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.”

Knows Challenges Leadership Leader Acceptance Criticism Intelligent Blind Questioning Employers Acclaim Blind Acceptance

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that [e-mails as governor published] are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.”

Want Country Challenges Solutions Surprise Keep Going Distraction Mail Governors Surprise Me Great Country

Author:Sarah Palin

“Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons. Primarily, it is a nuclear power. And if, in fact, al Qaeda and Taliban, which are in Pakistan and causing a lot of tragedies and deaths in Pakistan - if they would ever somehow have real influence and control of that government, then we [world] really have a problem.”

Ifs World Important Real Reason Facts Problem Seems Government Political Challenges Numbers Influence Tragedy Nuclear Complexity Als Pakistan Al Qaeda Taliban Nuclear Power

Author:Dan Quayle

“The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.”

“For me, to take a movie and travel the world and go and work with these cultures and an international cast and have this spy thriller that's not just about character but also action and suspense, they're very challenging films as a producer to make, creating stories, creating set pieces that serve this character [Ethan Hunt].”

World Character Stories Action Film Culture Challenges Pieces Creating International Casts Producers Suspense Hunts Spy Thrillers Travel The World Creating Stories

Author:Tom Cruise

“One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.”

Want Feels Trying Challenges Talking Theater Like Something Cinematic Talking Heads

Author:Morgan Neville

“I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping. I find that technology has made it so that we don't need to have a memory system, and as I get older I want to do things that challenge me. What could be more challenging than doing this show with a knee that's been replaced, after tearing my Achilles heel with a baker's cyst on the back of my knee? And then I have to try and dance!”

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Author:George Hamilton

“Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.”

Problem Film Difficult Challenges

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too discouraged. There is also a different kind of challenge for women, as they graduate into their 30s. It's hard. There isn't as much work. You're suddenly the aunt, or something. So, it's a process.”

Knows Kind Different Hard Process Challenges Answers Towns Graduates Different Kinds Vague Aunt Discouraged Pedals

Author:Anna Faris

“I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.”

Want Mind Certain Challenges Extremes Bored Pushing Push Yourself Change Yourself Challenging Myself

Author:Douglas Booth

“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.”

People Thinking Kind Self Bigs Actors Challenges Communication Terrible Focused Tendencies Tunes Get Real Self Centered Communicators Big Challenges

Author:Rainn Wilson

“The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.”

People Thinking Black Challenges White Figures Definitions Exclusive American Society

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your heart and everything you have into it. Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.”

People Want Looks Heart Kind Long Jobs Guy Actors Can Do Challenges Acting Successful Type Long Time Being Successful Eighty

Author:Jason Clarke

“With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.”

Ifs Happens Challenges Interesting Fit Easier Scripts Careful Dialogue Serving Be Careful Improving Framework Mannerisms

Author:Ray Liotta

“To me it is harder to play a real person, but when you do it and you feel good about it and the person feels good about it, I think that's doubly rewarding. So the challenge is greater, the risk is greater, but the reward is greater as well.”

Thinking Feels Wells Persons Real Play Challenges Greater Risk Harder Rewards Feel Good Real Person

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“I love the fight. I don't - it's not a negative, it's a positive, and I love the challenge. There's that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I'm a certain way.”

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Author:Tavis Smiley

“I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.”

People Knows Way Trying Looks Actors Challenges Cities Streets Cameras Shooting

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.”

Looks Hard Turns Challenges Tvs Series Ridiculous Monsters Episodes Heartbeat Tv Series

Author:Steven Moffat

“Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.”

Happens Actors Loses Challenges Weather Schedules Puzzles Injured Tetris

Author:David Benioff

“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.”

Ifs Want Matter Done Play Guy Goal Challenges Roles Comedy Havens Drama Scripts Teeth Bad Guys Want Something Good Guy

Author:Stanley Tucci

“There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.”

Ifs Believe Guy Voice Challenges Singing Lips Likes Discussion Hanging Out Toms Believe In Me Cruise

Author:Adam Shankman

“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].”

“For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.”

Challenges Wife My Wife Realistic

Author:Steve Carell

“I would say I was challenging the system quite. But I like to think that if the choices I make are slightly unexpected or challenging to people, then that is good. We are definitely three fairly like-minded people in terms of what we value in scripts and in storytelling.”

People Ifs Thinking Values Choices Three Term Challenges Scripts Storytelling Unexpected

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“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.”

Ifs Feels Helping Bigs Parent Challenges Wonder Minutes Bases Instinct Feels Right Trust Your Instincts Big Challenges

Author:Emily Deschanel

“I don't necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don't want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it's so easy to go the cliche route.”

Want Should Looks Different Easy Challenges Scripts Variety Bored Different Things Scare Routes Cliche Indication

Author:Liana Liberato

“I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.”

Different Film Challenges Acting Gone Havens Areas Different Things Exploring Challenging Myself

Author:Taylor Lautner

“There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.”

Giving Believe Ideas Sometimes Challenges Believe In Yourself Something New Believe In You

Author:Josh Peck

“I'm very fortunate that I get asked to do very different kinds of roles and I realize how much I enjoy that. I enjoy the challenge of transformation. There are actors who play one character, or a certain kind of character, the whole of their lives. I really relish the opportunity to have the challenge to totally transform.”

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Author:Toby Jones

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