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Challenge Quotes

"It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood."

Martin Henderson, New Zealander Actor

Challenge, Hollywood

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"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order."

Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian Statesman

Challenge, Democracy, Direction, Economy

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"Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish."

Shakira, Colombian Musician

Challenge, English, Songs, Spirit

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"Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order."

Carl Hubbell, American Athlete

Challenge, Order

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"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials."

Helen Frankenthaler, American Artist

Challenge, Difficulty, Learning, Problems

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"To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Challenge, Life, Growth, Self-improvement

"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."

John Corigliano, American Composer

Challenge, Composers, Film, Projects

"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

Challenge, Reading

"Each new book is a tremendous challenge."

Peter Straub, American Writer

"Differences challenge assumptions."

Anne Wilson Schaef, American Psychologist

"I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster."

Dave Rowntree, English Musician

"I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge."

Dennis Rodman, American Athlete

"My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality."

Regina King, American Actress

Challenge, Personality, Play, Will

"The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep."

Suzanne Fields, American Columnist

Challenge, College, Learning, Sheep

"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Challenge, Destiny, Troubles

"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet

Challenge, Writing

"I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge."

Ted Levine, American Actor

Challenge, Comedy

"I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge."

Michael Ritchie, American Director

"O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible."

Gabriel Byrne, Irish Actor

"You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Challenge, Space, Gravity, Overcoming

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Challenge, Difficulty, Gain, Glory, Reputation

"I've always loved a challenge."

Lana Turner, American Actress

"I always look for a challenge and something that's different."

Tom Cruise, American Actor

"I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?"

Hal Linden, American Actor

Challenge, Golf

"My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard."

Paula Zahn, American Journalist

"The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments."

Ron Jaworski, American Athlete

Challenge, Coaches

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

Julie Taymor, American Director

Challenge, Risk

"I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge."

Sarah Polley, Canadian Actress

Challenge, Open

"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."

James S. Coleman, American Sociologist

Challenge, Culture

"We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it."

Dick Butkus, American Athlete

"This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting."

Jan de Bont, Dutch Director

Challenge, Film

"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned."

Antonio Gramsci, Italian Politician

Challenge, Modernity

"If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it."

Chuck Zito, American Celebrity

Challenge, Fight

"I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better."

Brian Schweitzer, American Politician

Challenge, World

"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."

Jean Baudrillard, French Sociologist

Challenge, Desperation, Help, Today

"To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge."

Bela Lugosi, Austrian Actor

"Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark."

Ron Schiller, American Executive

Challenge, Now, Right

"So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge."

Lee Majors, American Actor

"I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous."

Anne Perry, British Novelist

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."

Lou Holtz, American Coach

Challenge, Will

"There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man."

Sean Connery, Scottish Actor

Challenge, Man, Nothing

"The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so."

Howard Baker, American Statesman

Challenge, Emotion, Facts, Negotiation

"When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge."

Terry Brennan, American Football Coach

Challenge, Nothing

"The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field."

Ty Cobb, American Athlete

"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Challenge, Expectation, Satisfaction

"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Challenge, Wind, Impossible, Futility, Effort

"AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching."

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African Leader

Challenge, Country, Disaster

"I think the tougher the challenge the better."

Jim Otto, American Athlete

"Don't be restricted to your comfort zone alone."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Challenge, Comfort, Zone, Growth

"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective."

Berenice Abbott, American Photographer

Challenge, First, Word

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