Top 100 Challenged Quotes
#1. I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
Irene Rosenfeld
#2. When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.
Shawn Levy
#3. And I realize I have never once actually been happy in my life.
And also never felt any kind of care that didn't threaten to give up when challenged.
Sam Pink
#4. Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
Antony Gormley
#5. It is a burden to be challenged to discover your promise land
Sunday Adelaja
#6. I would make a poor princess,' she said.
'Why?'
'Have you ever wished to be a princess?' Ash challenged her.
'That depends,' Kaisa said.
'On what?'
'On whether I'd have to marry a prince,' she said and her tone was lighthearted, inviting Ash to share her smile.
Malinda Lo
#7. Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.
Richard Sennett
#8. There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
Criss Jami
#9. I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.
Michael Franti
#10. What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Seth MacFarlane
#11. Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.
Mary Balogh
#13. We just keep making the shows that we love, and the good news is that we can never rest on our laurels, knowing that we're going to be on forever. We're constantly challenged to write the very best story that we can, week in and week out, hoping that that will allow us to keep telling more of them.
Jeff Pinkner
#15. You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee
John H. Vandenberg
#16. It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
Anita Roddick
#17. Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
Ed Miliband
#18. she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged.
Maya Angelou
#19. It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
Dakota Fanning
#20. I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
Joey Skaggs
#21. I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.
Adina Porter
#22. So elves could be walking around in our midst, disguised as normal, everyday, vertically challenged citizens.
Janet Evanovich
#23. I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#24. One would say something that challenged the other, often leading to an argument, and she realized how much she'd missed that. Not because they fought, but because of the trust it implied and the forgiveness that inevitably followed.
Nicholas Sparks
#25. Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.
Virginia Woolf
#26. Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny) ... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.
Leonard Maltin
#27. We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
Vance Havner
#28. People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth
Malcolm Gladwell
#29. Miss Wyndham, when I first met you in London, I thought you the most intelligent and the strongest girl I had ever had the pleasure of meeting. She would never moon after some mopey, dark boy. She would look for the man that challenged her, amused her, and made her sparkle and enjoy life.
Tarun Shanker
#30. The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#31. It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#32. Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#33. It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.
Bryant McGill
#34. Kyle Idleman's Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It's a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!
Jud Wilhite
#35. I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
Dwayne Johnson
#36. Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
Rachel Carson
#37. Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.
Matt Chandler
#39. Each of us has an innate, human desire to be challenged. We are driven by it, and we often learn from our experiences to set a target and hit it. Even if we don't reach our intended goal or destination, we gain strength in trying.
Michelle McCullough
#41. I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.
Paul Dano
#42. I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.
Michael Sheen
#43. However, he often feels challenged by those whom he teaches the sword. His disciples call him to combat.
Paulo Coelho
#44. Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.
Aaron Rodgers
#45. I think it's important that scared gay kids who aren't out yet see hate speech challenged.
J.K. Rowling
#46. I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.
Zoe Saldana
#47. When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut - sometimes when you look at a photograph, you just know it's the shot. Sometimes it's about the connection, or about the simplicity of the composition.
Russell James
#48. We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick)
No, but if you don't lay off me, I'm going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Aisha Tyler
#51. Fate decides until challenged by the fated
Kami Garcia
#52. A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.
Ramsay Burt
#53. Sugar Beth detected the movement and shot him a look that challenged not only his manhood but also his very right to exist on the planet.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#54. The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.
Ann Coulter
#55. Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
J Harlen Bretz
#56. Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
James Franco
#57. In the uneven balance of life, I'd experienced love and loss. The loss challenged me to be strong, but it was the love that supported me when I was weak. I was a survivor.
Rebecca Donovan
#58. You think our mam likes you better than me?" challenged whichever one was the other. (Don't blame me. I've lost track too.)
John Flanagan
#59. I love being challenged physically, as an actress.
Julie Benz
#60. Just as Alexander wept upon learning he had no more enemies to conquer, finite players come to rue their victories unless they see them quickly challenged by new danger. A war fought to end all wars, in the strategy of finite play, only breeds universal warfare.
James P. Carse
#61. Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
Muriel Barbery
#62. You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#63. People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.
Charlie Rose
#64. Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
Nancy Pelosi
#65. His rage fed my reckless euphoria. He couldn't stand having his authority challenged, and that made him easy to manipulate.
I was in chains, but he was losing control.
Rachel Vincent
#66. Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
John L. Lewis
#67. We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.
Margrethe II Of Denmark
#68. Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
Ricardo Semler
#69. Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.
Simon Mainwaring
#70. And in your deranged mind, what do you think the lesson of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' is?" Alex challenged him. "Easy," Conner said. "Lock your doors! Robbers come in all shapes and sizes. Even curly-haired little girls can't be trusted." Alex grunted again and crossed her arms.
Chris Colfer
#71. In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged to do in your imagination. You should use whatever you can and it's amazing how even if you change the medium, your work is still yours.
Michelle Stuart
#72. I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of.
Jason Segel
#73. Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
Adrienne Rich
#74. As a leader, there are professional skills and traits that are expected. It's your job to identify and exhibit them so you can be challenged and judged professionally as a leader - and not as a woman.
Liz Weber
#75. The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#76. With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs
#77. I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
Mark Waters
#78. I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.
Robin Roberts
#79. To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
Maya Angelou
#80. Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#81. Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.
Chuck Palahniuk
#82. I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.
Martin Heinrich
#83. Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged or what. Then she started giggling and I had the feeling we were thinking the same thing, namely, some people are lonely for all the right reasons.
Meg Rosoff
#84. As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".
Chloe Grace Moretz
#85. Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
Gregory Benford
#86. When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.
Mitt Romney
#87. The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.
Randy Gage
#88. The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
Major Owens
#89. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes
Peter F. Drucker
#90. I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.
Eric Ladin
#91. Girl, all existence is a test. Some just get challenged in more obvious ways.
Jessica Shirvington
#92. The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?
Richard Davidson
#93. Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who would have challenged my ideology.
Thomas C. Oden
#94. An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.
Ryan Gander
#95. Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.
Josh Peck
#96. Pushy bottom--that's a bit of a stereotype."
"A Dom who isn't pushing--that's a bit of an oxymoron," Stunt challenged him.
Lyn Gala
#97. I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.
Laurie Beth Jones
#98. I always challenged men, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they'll catch up.
Katie Uhlaender
#99. I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
Roger Jones
#100. We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.
George W. Bush
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