Top 100 Quotes About Daunting
#1. Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
Marianne Faithfull
#2. Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet!
Lonnie Dupre
#3. It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
Chris Frantz
#4. To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.
Lucy Punch
#5. Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.
Peprah Boasiako
#6. Dragons are a manifestation of things we fear. More often than not, those fears prove to be just as daunting and just as imaginary.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.
Nina Garcia
#9. Can you do it today? The notion of just trying to take each day as it came. The commitment to the present moment, and only the present moment, without worrying about the big and daunting picture of all the days that followed.
Andie Mitchell
#10. 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.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#11. Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.
Michael Beckwith
#12. 'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.
Billy Graham
#13. The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
Danny Huston
#14. There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.
Tim Curry
#15. Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.
Kristin Armstrong
#16. Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim and reinvigorate an art that has lost its space in Pakistan's narrowing cultural sphere.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
#17. When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.
Tom Waits
#18. Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.
Chris Hardwick
#19. Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires
Helen Zille
#20. The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.
Tom Brokaw
#21. To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
Christian Bale
#23. I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay.
Carmen Ambrosio
#24. The limitless opportunity of being able to do
anything is daunting, but it's also the most rewarding.
I'm having the time of my life.
Kody Chamberlain
#25. The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?
Martin Rees
#26. Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
Richie Sambora
#27. Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.
John Mulaney
#28. Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
Bob Mayer
#29. I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.
Carrie Brownstein
#30. Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
John Crowe Ransom
#31. I think the legacy left behind by 'Battlestar' speaks for itself. I thought that these avid fans, most of whom were skeptical at first ... to turn them into a fan of 'Caprica' as well is a daunting task, a big challenge.
Esai Morales
#32. In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.
Greg Boyle
#33. Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues.
Brian Herbert
#34. When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits.
Samantha Larson
#35. It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).
Christopher Meledandri
#36. To discover where God lives and how easily accessible He is to you is to be transformed from a life of daunting challenges and hopelessness to a life of boundless possibilities.
H. Dele Davies
#37. I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.
Chris Evans
#38. Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Malorie Blackman
#39. I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.
Lily Cole
#40. I think every role that I go up for is daunting.
Tom Cullen
#41. God always shows us the introduction and the conclusion of our dreams to excite us about the whole task. He doesn't want to show us the daunting body of our dreams because He knows that we'll rather run away from our dreams than to pursue them.
Euginia Herlihy
#42. We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
Jon Anderson
#44. Suddenly what to do with the rest of my life and what shirt to wear became equally daunting decisions.
Lolly Winston
#45. These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or more is daunting, I love it. It's my church and raises my spirit. It's good for my soul.
Roger Bart
#46. We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#47. The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
Jodi Picoult
#48. Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#49. Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
Laura Marano
#50. Probably the most daunting challenge in delivering growth is that if you fail once to deliver it, the odds that you ever will be able to deliver in the future are very low.
Clayton M Christensen
#51. Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.
Deborah Reber
#52. You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.
David Twohy
#53. I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#54. It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?
Chelsea Peretti
#55. Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
#56. It's somewhat daunting to reflect that Hell is
possibly
the place where you are stuck in your own personal narrative for ever, and Heaven is
possibly
the place where you can ditch it, and take up wisdom instead.
Margaret Atwood
#57. In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.
Kofi Annan
#58. That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#59. Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
Brooke Shields
#60. For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
Thomas Keating
#61. John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective - a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.
Robert Charles Wilson
#62. The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.
Phil Jackson
#63. Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.
Junot Diaz
#64. Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
Peter Davison
#65. Small Planes, Large Fences, and a Rather Daunting Number of Zombie Kangaroos, Because That Is Exactly What This Day Needed
Mira Grant
#66. A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
Sandra Bullock
#67. ...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and packed and redistributed in the living world.
Rosamund Lupton
#68. I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.
Howard Gordon
#69. When faced with a problem that looks too daunting to get through, try to remember you don't have to do it all at once. Create a calendar or timeline and cross off the milestones as you progress toward your goal.
David Mezzapelle
#70. So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
Robert Morris
#71. There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world.
Sufe Bradshaw
#72. Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.
Lesley Nicol
#73. Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
Dave Morris
#74. Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.
Dan Brown
#75. Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Hillary Clinton
#76. There are trials in life that feel as tremendous as a quest to slay dragons. These trials are daunting. They require hard work, determination, and courage. But when the dragon is finally slain, the relief is immense.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#77. While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.
Seth Shostak
#78. I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.
Craig Ferguson
#79. T's much less daunting once you've put your foot on the road to it. I'm a notorious couch potato and I don't like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start.
Tom Hardy
#80. I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
Sienna Miller
#81. In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
Rachel Sklar
#82. People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!
Carmelo Anthony
#83. It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding.
Desmond Tutu
#84. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.
Roald Dahl
#85. Her eyes are very bright. She loves senses, loves the world. He finds that ... admirable, and a bit daunting. I am a mole. I am hiding, in the company of a woman who adores the sunlight and the rain.
Nick Harkaway
#86. I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
Tony Goldwyn
#87. Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.
Pippa Middleton
#88. It's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.
Michael Hyatt
#89. Dying isn't so daunting a prospect when you're halfway there ...
Kresley Cole
#90. Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.
Bill McKibben
#91. (Mavis led Lorelei over to a shaded spot on the deck where a large pile of shirts, pants, and socks waited. From where she stood, it was a daunting task.)
How long have you been working on that? Just since the dawn of time, or eternally? (Lorelei)
Kinley MacGregor
#92. The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#94. Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.
Andy Weir
#95. Nicole: It's daunting, isn't it?
Charles: What?
Nicole: Trust.
He nodded slowly.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#96. The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.
Evgeny Morozov
#97. Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.
Farrah Fawcett
#98. Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
James Merrill
#99. Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.
Prince William
#100. The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.
Daphne Oz
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