Most Challenging Quotes

#1. I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

Jimmy Carter

#2. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

Michael J. Fox

#3. If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Bruce Willis

#4. Ever since I arrived in America to promote "Stoker," I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.

Park Chan-wook

#5. Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation.

Anne Osterlund

#6. In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

Sherilyn Fenn

#7. Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.

Steven Cuoco

#8. Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

Nita Ambani

#9. I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

Estella Warren

#10. The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change my pallet to like healthy food.

Ruby Gettinger

#11. This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Leonard Cohen

#12. I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.

Ariana Grande

#13. You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

Bob Seger

#14. I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

Jack White

#15. The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Steven Burd

#16. Simple things are often the most challenging.

Jodi Meadows

#17. It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

Kerri Walsh

#18. One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering the familiarity that keeps longtime fans devoted to the characters and story world.

Tina St. John

#19. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and direct confrontation with meaning, identity, and death.

Paul Kalanithi

#20. People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

Christopher Walken

#21. The most challenging aspect of living is staying in your lane.

T.F. Hodge

#22. Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak?

Philippa Gregory

#23. The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

Paul Auster

#24. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

#25. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

Angela Braly

#26. Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

William Russell

#27. I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.

Michelle Yeoh

#28. The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

Bruce Jenner

#29. I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.

Dennis Quaid

#30. When we make appreciation the central theme of our value system, then all the painful elements of our past become meaningful lessons we could not have done without. Acceptance becomes natural when we become adept at finding the silver lining, even in the most challenging circumstances.

Pooja Ruprell

#31. Driving in someone elses lane is easy, but remaining in your own seems to be the most challenging self discipline. No matter how big the highway, imagine yours is a singular road traveled in one direction - you're own.

T.F. Hodge

#32. I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

Chad Lowe

#33. I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner, and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.

Kate Bosworth

#34. Herbalife has been a part of the most challenging expeditions that I've done and the products have become a really critical and ongoing part my diet.

Sebastian Copeland

#35. In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

Satish Kumar

#36. Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most challenging prime ministership since the Suez Crisis, possibly since the Second World War.

Jeremy Hunt

#37. We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

Chris Meledandri

#38. For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

Bruce Beresford

#39. For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#40. The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

Gaspard Ulliel

#41. The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

Arthur David Beaty

#42. Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Philip Johnson

#43. I think the most challenging aspect was keeping up the degree of physical fitness you need while filming a major leading role in a primetime U.S. series. You have very little time to sleep and eat, let alone train.

Dustin Clare

#44. 'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.

Robert Gottlieb

#45. Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding special relativity is a little like true love: We should consider ourselves lucky if we can grasp hold of it for even one fleeting moment.

Seth Mnookin

#46. My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Kelly Price

#47. ...it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world.

Dani Shapiro

#48. Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things ... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Bethany Hamilton

#49. As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

Wayne Teasdale

#50. Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

Naomi Wolf

#51. I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

Galen Rowell

#52. I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.

William Hurt

#53. Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Jake Shimabukuro

#54. Healing is a different type of pain. It's the pain of becoming aware of the power of one's strength and weakness, of one's capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

Caroline Myss

#55. The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

Adyashanti

#56. Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Brian Weiss

#57. Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

Karen Hesse

#58. I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

Jenn Proske

#59. I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Michael Sheen

#60. There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Marlee Matlin

#61. I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

Tyrese Gibson

#62. I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

David Bowie

#63. Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

Ralph Marston

#64. YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES - THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.

John Bevere

#65. Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.

I.M. Pei

#66. It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

Roger Ballen

#67. Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.

Tosca Reno

#68. I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

Camilla Belle

#69. This may be the most valuable and the most challenging thing we can learn from Calvin's ecclesiology today: that the church is not something that we form of our own accord. It is not a product of our reaching out to God, but a gift of God reaching out to us.107

Michael S. Horton

#70. Family itself is a "we" experience, a "we" mentality. And admittedly, the movement from "me" to "we" - from independence to interdependence - is perhaps one of the most challenging and difficult aspects of family life.

Stephen R. Covey

#71. The most challenging work is producing. The physical act of getting a production up and running is extremely taxing, and you never have any guarantee that your years of work on any given project will ever bear fruit.

David Hayter

#72. I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

Candace Bushnell

#73. Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

Billy Childish

#74. What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

Olivia Wilde

#75. Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we're a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

Joseph Campbell

#76. I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Gisele Bundchen

#77. We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

Karch Kiraly

#78. The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

Bill Williams

#79. The transformation is the most excruciating pain that you could possibly imagine, so you're mimicking this grand mal seizure while wearing crazy latex make-up. It's so bizarre. It's really out there. The most challenging part is the emotional and physical side of it.

Sam Huntington

#80. I don't consider myself very brave in any sense. I'm interested in this kind of behavior. My job is to try to make it realistic and emotionally resonant. That's the most challenging thing, to bring emotional resonance to what you do as an actor.

Julianne Moore

#81. Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

Lorii Myers

#82. As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Chang-rae Lee

#83. It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most challenging thing.

Amy Adams

#84. Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people.

Millen Livis

#85. The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#86. The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

T.F. Hodge

#87. Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

David Benioff

#88. In life, the people whom you find the most challenging inevitably are the ones who have the most to teach you.

Julie Holland

#89. One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

Jeannette Walls

#90. One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

Mark Nepo

#91. I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

Kate Voegele

#92. Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

David Walker

#93. Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.

Doreen Virtue

#94. Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

Richard Schiff

#95. like the ancient Greek concept arete, I thought, virtue required moral, emotional, mental, and physical excellence. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and

Paul Kalanithi

#96. Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing

Guy Pearce

#97. You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Natalie Martinez

#98. Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

Herbert Simon

#99. You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

Joel Kinnaman

#100. Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

Arne Duncan