“Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known.” PeopleLifeLife IsPurposeChallengesExistenceKnownSecurityAdventureTestsSafetyMajorityOneselfLatterValleysDay To DayPreservationIllusoryRules For Radicals Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."” GivingHappensValuesChallengesLike YouKeysSafetyPrioritiesThings HappenMottoLife And HappinessValue Systems Author:Andy Stanley
“I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.” DifferentCharacterChallengesMorningSafetyGet UpNot InterestedDifferent Characters Author:Aunjanue Ellis
“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.” IfsKnowsMeanStillsProblemBodyOrderTurnsIndividualChallengesNumbersIssuesBirthSafeFemaleSafetyAddValuableAbortionFactoriesInfantReproductionBirth ControlFemale BodyBattleground Author:Gloria Steinem
“America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.” WarAmericaChallengesMetsProtectStrongerSafetyThreatIraqHarmAfghanistanHealthcareSeptemberSurvivedSeptember 11Public HealthSeptember 11thHealth And Safety Author:Christopher Bond
“Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives ... We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.” ChallengesDifferencesOur LivesMediaCommunicationMajorsSafetyMaking A DifferenceZoneRetreatSafety Zone Author:Walter Mikac
“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.” PeopleIfsNeedsFirstsWellsIdeasThreeSocialCommunityChallengesAnimalViewsPsychologyShareCallingEmptyThirdsSafetyWell BeingFulfillmentSatisfyingBouncePositive PsychologyPhysiologicalSharing Knowledge Author:Charles Koch
“As the photographer, it's challenging to make images that read quickly and are powerful, but have enough humanity and compassion. I've worked on these issues in the developing world because that's where the risk to girl's safety and access to education is the highest. But that doesn't mean that we don't have issues in the U.S. or western countries. For me, I focused on the developing world because it felt like the issue was more urgent there.” WorldMeanCountryEnoughHumanityChallengesPowerfulCompassionRiskSafetyWesternPhotographerFocused Author:Stephanie Sinclair
“I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.” ChildrenFactsCultureOpportunityChallengesImpossibleCreationYouthAreasEmpowermentSafetyProtectionRelatedTourism Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.” Has BeensImportantSchoolFacesMotherParentChallengesIssuesMiddleInternetDaughterSafetyTeenagerMy DaughterVisitingMiddle SchoolImportant Issues Author:Melissa Bean
“Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.” ThreeSoundChallengesSecretIntelligentSafetyInvestmentInvestingVentureMottoMarginsThree WordsBest Investment Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Our Heavenly Father has organized us into families for the purpose of helping us successfully meet the trials and challenges of life. The home also exists to bless us with the joys and privileges of family associations. Our family is our safety place, our support network, our sanctuary, and our salvation.” HelpingHomeJoyPurposeFatherChallengesSupportSafetySalvationPrivilegeTrialsOur FamilyOrganizedHeavenlyBlessAssociationSanctuaryHeavenly Father Author:Rex D. Pinegar
“I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.” TryingRealEndsCareChallengesDealsEnvironmentHealthOvercomingSafetyDeceitPublic HealthReal WorkHealth And SafetyI Do Care Author:Erin Brockovich
“As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.” WorldBodySpiritNatureChallengesLandOffersSafetyEnvironmentalWelcomeParksUnitsRetreatContemplativeRespiteValve Author:T. H. Watkins
“Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.” PeopleWorldWantGivingArtWishChallengesVirtueComfortableSafetyFamiliarMagazinesArtisticEssaysHomogeneity Author:Robert James Waller
“Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.” PeopleChallengesPositionFootballBiggerSafetyCornersHeadachePlaying Football Author:Ronnie Lott
“For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.” WaterChallengesQualityRecordsEnvironmentAirDevelopmentClaimsSafetyChinaRelatedSoilDegradationVariablesSimultaneousFood SafetyAir QualityWater Quality Author:James Fallows