“Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.” ChallengesPleasurePlansFieldsEnjoymentEach Day Author:A. E. Hotchner
“Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.” WayLongSufferingActorsChallengesStepsStageFieldsReadyLong TimeAthleteInjuryThrownMassivePreparingMovie Sets Author:Dwayne Johnson
“Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.” ChallengesFieldsProveRateOngoingCasualtiesProving Yourself Author:Richard E. Grant
“We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.” IfsWantNeedsGivingKindPersonsMadeHardFacesChallengesFieldsAgingChosenPlasticSurgeryPlastic SurgeryPact Author:Jane Fonda
“I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantMeanPersonsHardFactsCan DoChallengesFieldsHard WorkResearchExpertsBrownPretendingQualifiedGood Writers Author:Jodi Picoult
“The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.” KnowsWayChallengesFieldsApproachBest WayDumbOddsBoldnessNew Challenges Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.” LifeCharacterChallengesTeachingFieldsArgumentKillingAbsenceLectures Author:Sam Waterston
“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.” LongMadeRealProblemChoicesDifficultGrowthTermChallengesAnswersTechnologyEconomyIssuesFieldsEasierIntellectualSolutionsComplexesEnvironmentalPopulationCarefulVariousComplicatedMessLong TermDecentTransitionSustainabilityStatus QuoIntertwinedPopulation Growth Book:The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror Source: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
“Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.” DoeTodayFacesChallengesFieldsStudentsIgnoranceCapacityEducationalDaily LifeGritImpartEducation Today Author:Sai Baba
“The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.” WritingEnoughSufferingFunProcessChallengesPiecesFieldsSeriousMaterialsShapesLetting GoResearchLaborBackgroundsNarrativeBelovedLengthFlawsWriting ProcessParagraph Author:Bob Shacochis
“Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics.” PeopleMindSchoolChallengesFieldsIndependenceEnthusiasmPlentyCharacteristicsWillingnessDedicationDiscouragingNew Directions Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingLongPlayHoursChallengesRolesFieldsLong TimeOptimismPerformancesExpertsBest Performance Author:Bill Gates
“I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.” WorldYearsMeanWholePastSongProcessEnjoyVoiceChallengesAcceptingGoneFourFieldsPeriodsYears AgoNotesCriticalAround The WorldRangeFour YearsJoyful Author:Joan Baez
“The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.” MenStatesJobsOpportunitySocialChallengesJusticeIssuesOne ThingEconomicExampleFieldsParticularCitizensEqualMajorsSocial JusticeCorruptionAwakeningCentreEconomic SystemsEqual Opportunity Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.” WayLooksPoliticalSpeakChallengesFieldsConversation Author:Marianne Williamson
“You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.” ThinkingDifferentChallengesStruggleFieldsMastersBaseballThirdsGolfAthleteWeatherAtmosphereGrassDiamondYardsStadiumsVariablesGood Athlete Author:Jack Nicklaus
“Prior to me, no one in my family is in the field of IT, but I can feel that my brothers are following my footsteps very anxiously and enthusiastically. They are posing a constant challenge to my world record.” WorldFeelsI CanChallengesRecordsFieldsBrotherMy FamilyConstantFollowingMy BrotherFootstepsPosingWorld Records Author:Arfa Karim