Best challenges & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.”

People Ifs Games Challenges Produce Months Tests Designer Quests Compelled Fractions

Author:Max Levchin

“I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.”

Ifs Important Character Stories Strong Challenges Quality Products Scripts Good Story What's Important Great Character

Author:Corin Nemec

“If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.”

Ifs Challenges Couple Therapy

Author:Sandra Oh

“I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don't, I can live with myself.”

Ifs I Can Ends Challenges Seeing Achieve The End Of The Day Bad Day

Author:Michael Jordan

“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.”

Ifs Thinking Different Play Would Be Actors Challenges Roles Type Aspire

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.”

Ifs Needs Government Jobs Faces Challenges Economy Tough Difficulty Ideology Free Market Small Government Tough Questions

Author:Lucy Powell

“Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.”

Ifs Young Difficult Challenges Powerful Identity Ethics Staying Commandments Rail Chaste Difficult Challenges Young Life

Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

“If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.”

Ifs Want Firsts Character Stories Challenges Deals Directors Criteria

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.”

Ifs Knows Long I Can Enough Challenges Rooms Possibility Difficulty Acknowledge Obsessed Overestimate

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Hard Stories Moving Fall Challenges Perfect Scene Projects Moving Forward Hard Times Continuing Traps Coping Perfectionism Rewriting Continuing On

Author:Laini Taylor

“I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.”

Ifs Knows Way I Can Helping Easy Challenges Know How Struggle Routes Easy Way Easy Route

Author:Jack White

“Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.”

Ifs Wells Looks I Can Challenges Steps Something New Toes

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I like the challenges, so I'm not afraid to take on any piece of music and create a song to it if it feels right to me.”

Ifs Feels Song Challenges Pieces Beats Rap Not Afraid Feels Right Challenging Myself

Author:Will Ferrell

“We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.”

Ifs Inspirational Certain Given Challenges Sleep Race Alive Buddhism Periods Wake Up Lifetime Competing Going To Sleep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.”

Ifs Way Love May Long Pain Joy Certain Choices Difficult Challenges Leadership Path Inspire Best Way Midst Companion Discovering

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.”

Ifs Way Needs Humans Challenges Emotion Accepting Mark Defeat Engineers Human Emotions Zuckerberg

Author:Sarah Lacy

“If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Hate Challenges Interesting Balls Harder Screens Tennis Really Interesting

Author:Joseph Morgan

“What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.”

People Ifs Believe Enjoy Challenges Century Be You 21st Century Stereotype Pathetic

Author:Louise Mensch

“Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge the way I live, the problem is not with Jesus. The problem is with me. Charles Spurgeon expressed this in broader, scriptural terms when he said, “If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.”31”

Ifs Way Believe Said Problem Jesus Left I Believe Term Challenges Simple Teaching Ought Sticks Verses Thumbs Left Out Blisters Spurgeon

Book:Hyper-Grace

Source: Hyper-Grace

“I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Persons Enjoy Challenges Careers Wise Satisfied Ambitious Ambitious Person

Author:Jason Isbell

“My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Kind I Can Whole Jobs Challenges Know How Succeed Give Me Whole Life Welcome Doubted Doubters

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.”

Ifs Persons I Can Given Challenges Chance Proof Rise Above That One Person

Book:War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

Source: War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

“I don’t really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.”

Ifs Looks Running Challenges My Own Morning Wake Up Despite Waking Every Morning Going To Work Own Business Measure Of Success Waking Up Every Morning

Author:L'Wren Scott

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”

Ifs Believe Doe Real Reality Challenges Struggle Sea Ocean Sail Sailing Make Believe Sailing And The Sea Life Or Death Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love

Author:Morgan Freeman

“It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.”

Ifs Way Giving Has Beens Stories Form Courses Process Sides Challenges Pages Unique Uncharted

Book:Stories, Essays, and Memoir

Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir

“We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?”

Ifs Children Parent Challenges Imagine Prove Our Children Something New Prove It

Author:Veronica Chambers

“In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.”

Ifs Earth Term Challenges Rocks Shakes Pragmatic

Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.”

Ifs Stills Moving Dies Grows Challenges Creatures Standing Disturbance Standing Still

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges. From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”

Ifs Fighting Sides Challenges Lines Battle Draws Shame Debate Criticize Quran

Author:Jeffrey Lang

“If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.”

“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.”

“If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.”

Ifs Kind Would Be Challenges Enormous Right Thing Right Time

Author:Jamie Bell

“To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.”

“We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.”

Ifs Challenges Mark Scribbles

Author:John Steinbeck

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.”

Ifs Doe Facts Challenges Pay Attention Impossible Economic Economics Pay Attention Conceit

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.”

Ifs Art Challenges Five Painting Art Is Down And Frustration Frustrated Frustrating

Author:Robert Bateman

“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”

“If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.”

Ifs Writing Trying May Hard Enough Challenges Bases Pursuit Encounters Frustration Discouraged Patches Trying Hard

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.”

Ifs Mean Doe Challenges Education Students Educational Rejects Elders Educational System

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“We who are privileged to be in these chambers today can view the challenges we face as opportunities, not as reasons for despair. We can do this only if we blend our independent spirits in terms of reverence for the life and respect for nature. Each of you might suggest different words, but our goal certainly is the same: a better Oregon.”

Ifs Different Reason Might Today Faces Spirit Opportunity Goal Term Can Do Challenges Views Despair Independent Reverence Privileged Chamber Oregon Challenges We Face

Author:Tom McCall

“The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.”

Ifs Way Feels I Can Care Challenges Projects Passionate I Care

Author:David Heyman

“You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Wells Faces Fall Challenges Comedy One Thing Terrible Your Face Challenge Yourself Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Lucy Liu

“Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of. Challenges will come, but if you treat them simply as tests of who you are, you’ll come out of it not bitter and victimized, but smarter and stronger.”

Ifs Made Challenges Mistake Break Lucky Tests Treats Stronger Who You Are Bitter Smarter Make Or Break

Author:Donn Moomaw

“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

“I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.”

Ifs Stills Enough Challenges Accepting Roles Careful Rejects Selection

Author:Boman Irani

“The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being”

Ifs Wells Ends Age Challenges Development Comfortable Well Being Contentment Adverse

Book:The Culture of Contentment

Source: The Culture of Contentment

“Trials may come - and we may not understand everything that happens to us or around us. But if we humbly, quietly trust in the Lord, He will give us guidance and strength in every challenge we face. When our only desire is to please Him, we will be blessed with a deep inner peace.”

Ifs Giving May Happens Faces Desire Challenges Lord Please Blessed Inner Peace Trials Guidance Being Blessed Challenges We Face Trust In The Lord

Author:Bruce D. Porter

“If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them. The only thing I compare myself to is me, two years ago, or me one year ago.”

“Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

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