“Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.” IfsNeedsMotherCultureWomenChallengesResponsibilityAcceptingConditionsDaughterVictimMalesOppressionAppropriateWoundedTaking ResponsibilityDominanceGodlikeSocializingPrimacyMale Dominance Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.” IfsThinkingNeedsFeelsHas BeensInterestChallengesMy OwnBreakConditionsMediaPaintingSizeScalesMediums Author:Lee Krasner
“children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.” NeedsMayChildrenSelfOrderChallengesRiskConditionsTraumaBeing The BestSurvivorTestedTherapistsImmunityHigh Risk Author:Gail Sheehy
“Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.” WayFeelsPersonsYoungProcessChallengesActingConditionsToughExtremesProfessionOddProductive Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.” IfsWorldChallengesLevelsForeverCreativeConditionsObjectsConceptsExcitingDeterminePhysicsQuantumNew BeginningsInitialsContinuityWorldviewQuantum PhysicsTrajectory Book:The Self-Aware Universe Source: The Self-Aware Universe
“We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.” MotivationalPastChallengesConditionsSignificantRegionsQuartersDeclineSteel Author:Lakshmi Mittal
“I wanted to be prepared and be strong for any unexpected challenges, so from the beginning I was doing kick-boxing. I was wearing a sauna suit everyday, I was wearing sea goggles, I was wearing gloves. I was trying to put myself through the worst condition ever and most of the training sessions I was puking up.” TryingWantedStrongChallengesSeaWorstConditionsTrainingPreparedEverydaySuitsKicksBoxingUnexpectedBe PreparedSessionGlovesGogglesSaunas Author:Ray Park
“I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.” PeopleBeliefChallengesStruggleConditionsFrontsOffersHeartedChallenging Times Author:K'naan
“Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.” HumansChildrenLittlesLife IsSpiritTurnsChallengesConditionsDivineStandardsOrdinaryIdealsAdulthoodReverseWorldlyPrudenceFellowshipGlorifyEntrances Author:D. Elton Trueblood
“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.” BelieveGovernmentChallengesEnvironmentStreetsConditionsSecurityProductsWallClaimsNotesWorkersProfitConsumersCorporationsInvestorsToxicRegulationDiminishTaxpayersUnhealthyEmissionsLendingUnsafeHealthy FoodPredatoryGovernment RegulationBailoutsWorking ConditionsUnhealthy Food Author:Robert Reich
“What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.” WayLittlesIdeasSportsChallengesConditionsEventsOvercomingEntrepreneurTrainAthleteEncountersUnpredictableUndefined Author:Naveen Jain
“The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.” UseNationsSocialChallengesPovertyEconomicConditionsCenturyBuildingStandardsOilDevelopingConspiracySaddamServitudeBuilding Up Author:Saddam Hussein
“I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.” WayChallengesActingConditionsPerformancesActresses Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.” MaySocialEnjoyDifficultChallengesEnvironmentConditionsStaffMilitantBenignAnti SocialWorking Conditions Author:Simon Calder
“We have established the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union not by force, but through a compromise. It was a challenging, complicated, multi-year process based on agreement, compromise and mutually acceptable conditions in the hope of creating for our economies and for our people better competitive advantages in the world markets and in the world as a whole.” PeopleWorldYearsWholeForceProcessChallengesEconomyEconomicConditionsCreatingAdvantageUnionsComplicatedCompromiseAgreementCustomsAcceptableCompetitive Advantage Author:Vladimir Putin
“Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.” HumansChallengesHuman BeingsAbilityConditionsPlanetsLimitsTasksProsperityOur TimeOur SocietyFiniteUrgentEcological Book:Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet Source: Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet