“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.” TwoActionFilmUsedThreeHoursChallengesNovelFourCuttingPagesHundredFeaturesDramaticAdapting Author:Tom Perrotta
“For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.” TwoPlayCharacterOpportunityChallengesLet Me Author:Omari Hardwick
“The biggest challenge in life is for the two hearts to live in peaceful co-existence” HeartTwoLife IsChallengesExistencePeacefulLife ChallengesJekyllTwo Hearts Author:Hyde
“Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.” BelieveTwoMovingDifficultChallengesEmotionalOkayBoundsSelfishHealChainsVulnerableBeing YourselfDependenceAbandonmentBeing LovedBeing SelfishDifficult Challenges Author:Sue Thoele
“Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.” GivingWellsTwoDoneWould BeWantedChallengesNumbersHappenedTypeShotsDancingDanceBest Shot Author:Evander Holyfield
“Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.” FirstsTwoLastsTurnsThreeChallengesCareersMiddleVictoryCornersFinishedBrokeFlagsJuneTunnelsLanesTop 10Checkered Author:Tony Stewart
“That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.” PeopleThinkingTwoYoungNextChallengesWalksInspiringWonderfulWillingModelsEmbracePrioritiesInventionFantasticApplesObsolete Author:Steve Jobs
“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.” IfsFeelsShouldYearsTwoShowsBeautifulYoungGirlChallengesInspireHugeLike YouSmartYears AgoKillingPassionateDrivenCompareTwo YearsSurroundAmbitiousThrillOther GirlDisserviceTwo Years AgoKilling ItAmbitious Women Author:Taylor Swift
“Juggling a career and a family is a challenge for anyone, and even more so (in general) for women. Probably the most important advice to any woman interested in a career is to pick your life partner with care. Having a supportive partner is key to trying to manage the constraints of these two demanding roles.” TryingTwoImportantCareChallengesCareersRolesAdviceKeysPicksPartnersManageSupportiveConstraintsJugglingLife Partner Author:Daphne Koller
“In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.” YearsTwoSelfStoriesAgeSportsSidesChallengesPlayerShareVoteTwentiesMalesGoldenFulfillmentTennisStatus QuoEngagingHeadlinesHeroinesRight To VoteGolden AgeRoaringCounterpartsAmerican WomanSwimmerHelenTennis PlayerGertrudeChallenging The Status QuoSelf FulfillmentRoaring Twenties Author:Donna de Varona
“Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.” TryingHas BeensTwoChallengesBradRadiohead Author:Chris Martin
“There was one or two offers that did come along during my time at United, but I always came back to this point; why would you leave United? Where is the bigger challenge? And the thing about challenges is, once you have won something, you can't live on that. Not at Manchester United - you have got to win the next one. And that's the challenge. Maintaining that consistency of winning which is a mentality that I have had.” TwoNextWinningChallengesUnitedOffersBiggerMy TimeMentalityConsistencyMaintainingManchesterThe Next OneManchester United Author:Alex Ferguson
“Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California Clean Tech Open, which challenges California entrepreneurs to bring new, clean technologies to market. I encourage business leaders, policy makers, and environmental advocates to support this innovative, exciting competition.” TwoSidesGrowthChallengesLeaderTechnologySupportEconomicPolicyExcitingEntrepreneurCompetitionCleanEnvironmentalCaliforniaMakersPreservationCoinsInnovativeEconomic GrowthTwo SidesCleanlinessIllustrationBusiness LeadersPolicy Makers Author:Terry Tamminen
“I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.” IfsMenTryingYearsLongMadeTwoRealReasonShowsTogetherLastsFilmActorsChallengesCareersOne ThingDrawsVariousFamiliarBoredFallenBoredomCopInherentUniformsSeventeen Author:Benjamin Bratt
“For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it.” PeopleMindPersonsTwoIdeasTogetherSpiritChallengesVisionCreativeAliveInspireVersionsJust OneComing TogetherCollaboratingCreative Spirit Author:Scarlett Johansson
“The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.” WorldWayTwoWarFightingThreeChallengesOceanChinaPracticalsBest WayPeacefulChineseNavyRobustRise Of China Author:Rudy Giuliani
“If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!” IfsI CanTwoTurnsCan DoChallengesDogGoes OnRoundsKicksTwo ThingsBitesLaddersAnkles Book:HER LIFE AND WORK Source: HER LIFE AND WORK
“Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.” IfsTwoTogetherSidesChallengesPovertyFailingClimateClimate ChangeCoinsTwo SidesGlobal Poverty Author:Nicholas Stern
“The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.” LongTwoGovernmentSchoolTermChallengesDecisionBuildingTaxesLong TermTwo ThingsHolidayInfrastructureDeficitReductionPayrollPayroll Tax Author:Jacob Lew
“In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.” LittlesTwoSeemsMightFilmChallengesWeekTelevisionLike YouMonthsScriptsTheatreTwo WeeksGood FilmsAhead Of Time Author:Wesley Snipes
“I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'” I CanTwoChallengesImagineCrazyMinutesHairBiggerCurly Hair Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.” ChildrenMadeTwoHouseChallengesCasesPaidSymptomsMaintainingDiapersPostpartumPostpartum Depression Author:Mika Brzezinski
“Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.” TwoIdeasChallengesChanceTeamOvercomingStrategySetbackBrainstormingTwo Heads Author:Richard Branson
“I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.” FirstsMeanDoeTwoDifferentTodayPastChallengesLessonsMindsetEverest Author:Lewis Gordon
“People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.” PeopleTwoHandsFacesStrongChallengesNeededStrong PeopleTwo Hands Author:Abbe Pierre
“There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.” PeopleWantWritingTwoPlayNightSongChallengesRecordsFiveMonthsRadioFantasticComposerSaturdaySaturday NightTwo Months Author:Robert Wyatt
“My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.” TryingTwoChallengesRepeats Author:Cillian Murphy
“Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.” TryingTwoBookKidsSchoolReadingChallengesWeekReading BooksTwo WeeksStay In School Author:Alex Rodriguez
“It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!” MenSaidTwoWholeMomentsThreeChangeChallengesCasesFourMoments In Time Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Each of the films, whether it’s Magic Mike or Dallas Buyers Club, was a challenge for me. I had to dig deeper. Also, my decision to shake things up came after my first child was born. I had taken nearly two years off and I thought that I would enjoy my time as a dad and wait until something interesting came along.” YearsFirstsChildrenTwoFilmWaitingEnjoyBornChallengesDecisionInterestingTakenMagicDadClubsDeeperMy TimeShakesTwo YearsMikeDallasBuyersDig DeepSomething InterestingMagic Mike Author:Matthew McConaughey
“If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.” PeopleIfsPersonsTwoFacesLife IsChallengesStepsMastersStep Up Author:Tony Robbins
“You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.” NeedsTwoRealityFacesChoicesCoursesHoursChallengesResponsibilityDramaAuthenticityWeighing Author:Paul Greengrass
“I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.” TwoDoneThreeEasyChallengesWeekWallComfortableOddsJeopardy Author:Gordon Ramsay
“The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.” TwoJoyLyingThreeChallengesMemoriesPaintingSymbolsTranslations Author:Paul Kane
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.” PersonsTwoFeelingsWould BeInterestChallengesDifferencesLove IsFashionUnityDeeperAttractionCharacteristicsMutualEchoesExpansionComplementaryMutual Interest Author:Felix Adler
“Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.” TwoChallengesNew YorkBuildingProudProjectsUniversityTallHousingTall Buildings Author:I. M. Pei
“The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.” TwoNextChallengesGoneOne DayPhotographyShotsNext DayTwo DaysNew Challenges Author:Patrick Demarchelier
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson