Top 100 Quotes About Challenging
#1. I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people's opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.
Carl Henegan
#2. There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.
Samantha Power
#3. Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that.
Bobby Darnell
#4. The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.
Jeff Galloway
#6. Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit ...
Farrah Fawcett
#7. Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Viktor E. Frankl
#8. We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.
Ronnie Hawkins
#9. People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party ... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm ... we have to reward them.
Niger Innis
#10. Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.
Gina Bellman
#11. A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.
Howard Whitley Eves
#12. I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.
Daniel Pfeiffer
#13. He met her challenging gaze. "You really have no idea what is good for you," he said as he caged her against the side of the pickup with a hand on each side of her.
I used to think you would be good for me," she said quietly, her voice rough with emotion.
B. J. Daniels
#14. I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.
Donovan Bailey
#15. I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."
Marianne Williamson
#16. If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.
Sandra Oh
#17. Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level.
Joel Robuchon
#18. Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.
Dan Jenkins
#19. I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#20. I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.
Ryan Holmes
#21. We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative
Kameron Hurley
#22. 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
#23. I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
Tate Donovan
#24. Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.
Ayn Rand
#25. 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
#26. Life, or the specter of life, is constantly challenging us for acts we've never committed. And sometimes for acts we never even thought of committing.
Roberto Bolano
#27. Two billion years bacterial organisms were the only forms of life. They lived, they reproduced, they swarmed, but they didn't show any particular inclination to move on to another, more challenging level of existence.
Bill Bryson
#28. I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.
Joshua Bell
#29. The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
Jean Houston
#30. There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
Umberto Eco
#31. I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#32. I'm really a big believer in working with people. It's challenging for me to come into already integrated brands and find a way where I can put my own flair on it.
Erin Wasson
#33. A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#35. Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
Elliott Carter
#36. 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
#37. I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
Ted Dekker
#39. Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods.
Kaitlin Bevis
#40. And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
Anthony Quinn
#41. I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that people like to watch, and at the same time find something that, for me, as an actor, is interesting and challenging.
Mike Colter
#42. Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.
Joseph J. Romm
#43. You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.
David Oyelowo
#44. There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
John Burdett
#45. I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.
Charlie Rowe
#46. I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#47. In life, the people whom you find the most challenging inevitably are the ones who have the most to teach you.
Julie Holland
#48. I never thought I would be in a position like this, where my words and experiences are now inspiring others to follow suit. It's challenging at times, but I can only look forward to the future of business and philanthropy.
Blake Mycoskie
#49. People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.
Sheryl Crow
#50. You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.
Kelly Rutherford
#51. Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale
#52. People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#53. [Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.
John Noble
#54. Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it.
Andi Jones
#55. And where are you going?" His voice was playfully challenging.
"To get some breakfast," she said without stopping.
He leered. "I've got something for you to eat," he called after her.
"I might bite it off, though," she said over her shoulder.
Ken Follett
#56. 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
#57. I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!
Charlie Crist
#58. I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.
Kevin Systrom
#59. It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
Harbhajan Singh
#60. Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.
Rick Santelli
#61. We all know the secret of dieting ... it's the application that's challenging.
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Gretchen Rubin
#62. When children's problem behavior persists despite rules and consequences, it often means that they do not have the skills to cope with challenging situations. We must either change those situations or teach better coping skills.
Jed Baker
#63. I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
Steven Holl
#64. Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.
Guy Pearce
#65. In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
Bernadette Peters
#66. I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.
Jennifer Aniston
#67. I feel like people grow the most when they step outside of the box that they are used to. For me, it's constantly challenging myself to step outside of my comfort zone. As soon as you do that, then you grow, but then you get comfortable again.
Sanaa Lathan
#68. Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting.
Vivica Fox
#69. Events that look unfortunate or challenging at the human level are actually taking us to higher levels in the evolution of our soul.
Santosh Joshi
#70. I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.
Ione Skye
#71. I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
Lynn Collins
#72. The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
Therese Fowler
#73. I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.
Kevin Systrom
#75. Trust me, if I did something, you wouldn't be asking. You'd definitely be feeling it for days to come." His green gaze shimmers, challenging me. "I might be a jerk, but I'm the kind of jerk who always lets the woman come first. And not just once.
J.C. Reed
#76. In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.
Toni Braxton
#77. A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.
Archie Panjabi
#78. I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.
Jimmy Carter
#79. Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.
Kim Anderson
#80. The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you that you love, well, that's just fabulous.
Sex And The City Episode Guide Team
#81. Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they're always strangely drawn back ... because there's nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires
Dan Eldon
#82. There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#83. It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.
Rashida Jones
#84. In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still ...
Michael A. Ledeen
#85. If a person who is content with his life meets someone who makes everything just a little bit more challenging, who both fits and doesn't fit into his life and his routine, to quote Guy Fieri, it is On Like Donkey Kong: swing the rope, jump the barrel, and save the princess.
Sarah Wendell
#86. Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
Evander Holyfield
#87. I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having fun, they're going to give it everything they got.
Tracy Letts
#88. Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?
Kathleen Hanna
#89. One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
Djimon Hounsou
#90. Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.
Heather Brooke
#91. People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.
Marianne Williamson
#92. Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.
Victoria Mahoney
#93. Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.
Roberta Williams
#94. My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.
Daniel Radcliffe
#96. There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.
Tariq Ali
#97. I am Love. You are Love. All that is real is Love.
This is worth remembering,
especially when you seem to be stuck
in the middle of a challenging experience.
Paul Morris Segal
#98. I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#99. There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.
Mat Kearney
#100. I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
Hari Kondabolu
