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“I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.”

“Another thing that I like and that's fun for me is to try and talk and play music at the same time, because I feel like I'm learning something. There are these little challenges built into it; it's a way to push myself a little bit more as a performer.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.”

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Author:Joe Meno

“I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.”

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Author:Sarah Dessen

“As people become multisensory, they begin to realize that their lives are meaningful, that there's a purpose to all of their experiences - to the people that they meet, to the challenges that they have, that nothing is random.”

People Purpose Realizing Challenges Meaningful

Author:Gary Zukav

“I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.”

“One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.”

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Author:Mark Nepo

“To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.”

Mean Challenges Our Time

Author:Mark Nepo

“The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.”

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Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.”

“Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Please learn that as you wrestle with a challenge and feel sadness because of it, you can simultaneously have peace and rejoicing.”

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Author:Richard G. Scott

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“Lucifer whispers that life's not fair and that if the gospel were true, we would never have problems or disappointments. ... The gospel isn't a guarantee against tribulation. That would be like a test with no questions. Rather, the gospel is a guide for maneuvering through the challenges of life with a sense of purpose and direction.”

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Book:No Doubt about it

Source: No Doubt about it

“Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.”

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Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.”

Challenges Authority Instance Fighter Opponents Disobedience Civil Disobedience Stimulation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.”

Way Writing Book Easy Challenges Answers Easy Answers

Author:Jodi Picoult

“You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.”

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Author:George Lucas

“My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.”

“There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.”

Ideas Actors Games Energy Challenges

Author:Nicolas Cage

“What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.”

Play Challenges Excited Gamer

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because when I started I was just doing characters and impressions and that was it.”

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Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.”

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Author:David Tennant

“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.”

“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.”

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Author:Laurie Simmons

“It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I've remade a few movies and they all have one thing in common: great endings. If you're going to remake something, make sure that ending is tight. It's a little less challenging, if you have a great ending. If you don't have a great ending, don't remake the movie.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.”

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Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.”

Sides Challenges Personality Mentor

Author:Tim Gunn

“The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.”

“The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.”

Way Book Process Challenges Teach One Way

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.”

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Author:Mark Cuban

“When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing else. That allows me to make sure that I'm really challenging the art, making each picture as interesting as I can.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.”

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Author:Steven Knight

“It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.”

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Author:Phil Jackson

“The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.”

Thinking Art Important Challenges Authority

Author:Lisa Yuskavage

“I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.”

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Author:Leslie Parrish

“I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

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