“Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.” PastForceGoalChallengesWhiteCreativePagesAdvantageCreative WorkPast SuccessCirque Du Soleil Author:Guy Laliberte
“Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.” PastChallengesCommitmentAfghanistanStrengtheningUnderestimated Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.” TryingMindPastChallengesBeatsAccomplishAccomplished Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.” WayMightPastFormOrderForceChristChallengesEventsSeekingMaturityFixedResurrectionIsolatedStretchingStaticDefyingUnleashing Author:Frank Griswold
“Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.” TodayPastTimeDiesOpportunityEnjoyChallengesPleasureMagicPassingPassingsGloriousEach DayUndoneNew ChallengesEnjoy Today Author:Ruth Carter Stapleton
“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.” IfsArtPhilosophySeemsPastIndividualSocialBornChallengesInfluenceEconomicDesignPossibilityCivilizationShapesPressureImpactFilledDeterminedStatementsRangeProphecyExpansionTextureArt And SciencePlausibleDubiousPhilosophy And ReligionSocial PressureExpendables Author:Arthur Koestler
“As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.” WantFirstsCountryStatesGovernmentPastGamesChallengesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyGreaterCenturyTwentiesCrisisDepthFinancialDisasterRecoveryShockMassiveChickensSteadyOddsPackagesCliffsRecessionsFinancial CrisisChasmsAusterityLooming Author:Fareed Zakaria
“New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.” ArtPastHoursChallengesCitiesGrowingNew YorkAccomplishmentReliefThrowingGrowing OldThrowing Away Book:The Practice of Everyday Life Source: The Practice of Everyday Life
“The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.” MotivationalPastChallengesWeekMonthsVictoryTasteOutrunGreatest VictoryDaily Challenges Author:Francisco Leon
“I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.” ThinkingWayLooksPastChallengesCriticsMakeup Author:Ellie Goulding
“The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.” PeopleYearsHas BeensProblemTodayPastChallengesTrainingProgramEducatedEmployeeRapidsStrengtheningWorkforceDeteriorationAmerican BusinessTraining Programs Author:Gregory Balestrero
“... it isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past -- are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down -- but I can't stay there.” LongI CanTodayPastChallengesCryBlessingYesterdayCalamity Book:The Gay Illiterate Source: The Gay Illiterate
“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.” WantTryingDifferentDonePastActorsChallengesStepsDifferent ThingsChallenge Yourself Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.” NeedsHumansHandsPastChoicesIndividualChallengesCreativityNovelCreativeTeacherAchieveBuildingMajorsModelsCommitmentInnovationInsightInquiryContinuityLearnersCollaboratorsHuman KnowledgeCreative Life Author:Vera John-Steiner
“My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.” PeopleIfsDoeSeemsPastMovingChallengesTalkingSupportGroupsInvolvedIllMake SenseLooking BackCampusSupport Groups Book:Following Christopher Creed Source: Following Christopher Creed
“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
“After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.” SoulAblePastDiesChallengesPreparedIdeologySoul SearchingMy PastRenounceIslamists Author:Maajid Nawaz
“The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.” Has BeensPastChoicesChallengesInformationNewsNewspapersDiversion Author:Robert G. Picard