“There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge.” WorldChallengesModernStep Up Author:Julie Smolyansky
“I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.” ThinkingYearsKindBigsSchoolChallengesEconomyModernSkillsProductiveTechnologicalKindergartenBig Challenges Author:Barack Obama
“This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.” StatesReasonValuesIndividualChallengesDecisionGroupsModernEssentialsSmall GroupsBrake Author:Jacques Ellul
“The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.” PeopleImportantDifferentEnoughWholeTodaySidesChallengesModernMediaInformationPositionCommunicationTendenciesLatterInvitedInfluentialViewpointsModern Communication Author:Pope Francis
“Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?” IfsWorldHumansMayMeanArtSelfFormFeltChallengesModernSubjectsPhotographyPhotographSupremeBranchesEnterprisePrincipalTourismEnlargementAbnormalityClandestineArt Photography Author:Susan Sontag
“I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.” TryingCountrySoundChallengesModernSingersTraditionalAlways TryingCountry Singer Author:Joe Nichols
“In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.” WorldFeelsKindHateCausesChallengesModernHugeAmountConceptsWesternNotionTerrorismFrustrationModern SocietyMuslim WorldAnger And Frustration Author:Dalai Lama
“Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.” WorldWayWantLooksChallengesModernDesignSeasonsExcitingAround The WorldConsumersUnexpectedNew WaysWant SomethingPrepsSomething Unexpected Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.” MenBelieveMatterHomeBeautifulGivenI BelieveSoundChallengesCareersModernStrangeTypeEternalSmartEarsFunctionMotherhoodPhrasesSophisticatedFulfillingGodlyDivorcedBeautiful WomenSmart WomenCareer WomenGodly ManGodly Woman Author:Peter Marshall
“In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.” ShouldImportantSelfSchoolChallengesLeaderPathModernAwarenessSelf AwarenessEntrepreneurAttributesCommitteesStanfordBusiness SchoolAdvisory Author:Kevin Kelly
“We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?” NeedsBookHomeChallengesRaceModernPoetMurderSuicideNovelistsThemeDestroyingMiltonMelville Author:Edward Abbey
“One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders.” NeedsCoursesChallengesIssuesRightsModernBehaviorBasesCreatorConsumersDistributionCopyrightUp To Date Author:Lisa Langseth
“Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.” ShouldLooksRealityPastArtistChallengesPathGenerationsModernColorPainterImperfectionModern LifeBrutalityNew GenerationNew PathsDidactic Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real. Moreover, I think it's about constantly challenging classical ideas by bringing in unexpected and different elements; for example a long, elegant evening skirt paired with a simple t-shirt on the red carpet. I think this approach is the future.” ThinkingLongIdeasDifferentRealTodayEasyChallengesSimpleModernExampleElementsApproachRedNotionEveningShirtsUnexpectedElegantT ShirtCarpetGlamourSkirtsRed CarpetEffortless Author:Roksanda Ilincic
“Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face. There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.” ImportantRealRealityFacesChallengesModernCrimeEmbraceTinyLife And DeathMinoritiesAustraliaPersecutionNoisyMulticulturalElementalsFleeing Author:Bill Shorten
“he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.” WholeCharacterFunSidesChallengesDarkChristianityAudienceMagicModernParticularFindingsLosingDevilAngelBackgroundsHaving FunDualityPaganDark SideBackdropCuspLosing ControlAngel And Devil Author:Joseph Fiennes
“I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.” TryingStoriesDifficultInterestChallengesModernCrimeReaderHorrorInstinctViolentGenreHorror StoriesViolent Crimes Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
“Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They want us to return to Their presence. Because of Their love for us, They have given us resources to obtain comfort, direction, and strength for our journey home. I speak of prayer, the wonderful and sublime ability to communicate and share our concerns with the Father; the Holy Spirit, which will enlighten and comfort us; and the words of the prophets, both ancient and modern. These resources give us understanding and direction in dealing with our challenges.” WantGivingHomeSpiritFatherSpeakGivenUnderstandingChallengesPrayerAbilityWonderfulJourneyShareModernDevelopmentReturnHolyComfortSucceedEssentialsResourcesConcernAncientCommunicateHoly SpiritProphetSaviorSublimeWant UOur FatherEnlighteningAbility To CommunicateJourney Home Author:Dean M. Davies
“Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.” WellsMaySoulRunningValuesTurnsSocialChallengesModernConcernRootsCaringContraryAcceptedRadicalNormSocial LifeDeep Roots Author:Thomas More