“It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.” HomeChallengesSuccessfulProveWestFinancialRussiaInvestors Author:Alisher Usmanov
“We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?” IfsChildrenParentChallengesImagineProveOur ChildrenSomething NewProve It Author:Veronica Chambers
“I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWellsChallengesProveToolsEnglandCupsAround The WorldProve ItWorld Cup Author:Steven Gerrard
“Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.” ChallengesFieldsProveRateOngoingCasualtiesProving Yourself Author:Richard E. Grant
“If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well.” IfsWellsProblemActionOpportunityProcessChallengesChanceResultsViewsSeeingProveNegativeCrisisCollectivesRetreatLensesCollective ActionMettle Book:The 50th Law Source: The 50th Law
“Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they chat someone up? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerers biggest challenge.” PersonsHardJobsYoungChallengesHard WorkProveAdultsAverageYoung AdultPhonesRingsHandleGrantedInterviewsAverage PersonJob Interview Author:Gareth Gates
“I love the fight. I don't - it's not a negative, it's a positive, and I love the challenge. There's that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I'm a certain way.” ThinkingWayLittlesCertainFightingChallengesProveNegative Author:Tavis Smiley
“When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.” PeoplePresidentChallengesProveOfficeOathOath Of Office Author:Jackie Robinson
“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.” PeopleThinkingTryingPersonsReasonCharacterChallengesLinesWalksAcceptingBreakAudienceBattleProveEdgesBad ThingsJustifiedGood Person Author:Steven Knight
“Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.” IfsLongWantedFatherEasyChallengesResultsGreaterChangedProveAccountsLifestyleCompetentProve Myself Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou
“I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge.” PeopleThinkingWorldPlayCareWantedChallengesChanceLevelsPlayerReadyProveMy FamilyTake CareBest Players Author:Jermaine O'Neal
“I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's a big difference from a typical movie, journalists and critics and film goers that go see it find that, that's the general experience you have as a filmmaker. So that just kind of proves my point that there's a really different audience.” ThinkingKindDifferentBigsFilmCertainChallengesDifferencesAudienceProveCriticsJournalistFilmmakerSurvivorTypicalLone Author:Peter Berg
“It's definitely been a conscious decision to seek out roles that are different, in any way, from anything that I've done, just to prove to myself that I can do it and to challenge myself. If I can, then great, it will open up those doors and just prove to other directors and peers that I am, in fact, available for things other than comedy.” IfsWayI CanDifferentDoneFactsCan DoChallengesDecisionRolesComedyDoorsDirectorsProveConsciousAvailablePeersI Can Do It Author:Malin Akerman
“My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.” PeopleThinkingTryingMadeSelfGuySportsChallengesProveAthleteVariousSupposed To BeHeightGood Athlete Author:Wilt Chamberlain
“I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.” PeopleSaidHardChallengesActingProveOvercomingActressesExtrasDyslexic Author:Bella Thorne
“I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only way in which he could challenge a sitting president then it becomes his crusade, is to create the primaries and to call for the people to rule.” PeopleThinkingWayBookPoliticalForcePresidentChallengesProveSittingUltimatePrimariesCrusades Author:Geoffrey Cowan
“Globally, proving myself working well with Adidas, showing my work could be globally distributed and loved and appreciated and still be challenging. Maybe I'm one of the first people on a larger scale to make more challenging and more unique items.” PeopleFirstsWellsStillsChallengesProveUniqueScalesAppreciatedItemsAdidas Author:Jeremy Scott
“We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.” SaidWantedFilmChallengesTelevisionProveNewsFoxesReferringFox NewsClip Author:Marina Abramovic
“The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us.” IfsWorldGivingHumansStillsStatesReasonDoneEnoughWholeBeliefChallengesChanceFailingProveStandingAcceptedWhole WorldCertaintyReachingInvitationsNeglectedWarrantsHuman Reason Author:John Stuart Mill
“The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.” ThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsIdeasHumanityTermChallengesProveTradeConnectedImmigrationGenerousExplainingFree TradeBeing Generous Author:Bill Gates
“I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.” KnowsWantLittlesSoulChallengesWalksFocusMissingProveLosingWho You AreYour SoulLittle ThingsI Want YouJeansAnonymityUnnoticed Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.” PeopleMeanInterestChallengesAnimalQuietProveDisappearHillsInsatiableRarity Author:Tilda Swinton
“There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.” PeopleImportantChallengesFocusHard WorkProve Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad
“The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.” WayFactsWaitingChallengesTheoryProveHighestScientistLifetimeRewardsCaricatures Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.” MenWayHardReasonProblemLastsPastFacesDifficultChallengesSimpleAnswersStepsClearBecomingLessonsProveLimitsOvercomingPressesDetermineWho We AreWrecksTossNature Of Man Book:Nothing by chance: a gypsy pilot's adventures in modern America Source: Nothing by chance: a gypsy pilot's adventures in modern America
“The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.” FeelsFirstsBeautifulGirlLosesChallengesStepsTerribleProveCynicalDeclineFirst StepsVirginityFilthyPredicamentsBeautiful GirlIrrevocableScruplesWomanizerLowlifes Book:The Elementary Particles Source: The Elementary Particles