Obama isn’t good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.
I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.
Really the greatest music I’ve ever heard I’ve hated the first time I heard it. It’s been abrasive at first; it’s been something that challenged me in a way that I wasn’t fully comfortable with.
I’ve been very blessed as far as my faith sustaining me because it’s not like I haven’t been challenged and I haven’t been tested and disappointed. But my faith does really bind me and keep me.
I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like an artist and keep being challenged.
I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.
Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who’s ever disagreed, whoever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.
‘Captain Marvel,’ whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.
I really don’t have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it’s only acting.
The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.
I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.
Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.
I have always been restless. I have always been a seeker. It is one of the reasons that I train as hard as I do and I have studied as many disciplines as I have. I need to be challenged.
Normally, when a fighter gets challenged, they answer.
For sure, there were days while building my business from the ground up that challenged me more than others, and maybe I just wanted to stay home and not face anyone, but I’ve always thought about the people on my team and their families, and the choice was easy: man up.
If you’re not challenged, you’ll get bored.
It’s easy to say, ‘I’m anti-capitalist,’ or, ‘I’m anti-Western decadence,’ without having to be challenged about what that actually means, or how you might go about reshaping society to make it better.
People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.
I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it’s challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don’t challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.
I think, like most actors, it’s really exciting to be challenged.
I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We’ve done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won’t be falling asleep at the theater.
I love being challenged and defending my positions and, when I’m wrong, learning from the exchange. It makes me smarter and better as a businessperson.
I guess I’d like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
‘Saturday Night Live’ has always been, you know, non-partisan – whoever’s in power should probably be challenged.
When I read, I don’t need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don’t need to have my heart broken. I don’t need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don’t need to swoon.
A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures – a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn’t being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.
I personally won’t have anything live in my house that can’t move the car on street-sweeping day or grate carrots. Plus, I don’t mind being talked to harshly. I want to be challenged by something more complex than a Wheaton terrier.
I know that love is real when it’s not convenient, when it’s not selfish, when it’s challenged, sometimes even if it’s not reciprocated.
To grow, people need to be challenged.
Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I’ve always challenged that notion.
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic – but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.
I’m always challenged by someone.
When you’re challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you’re willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you’re willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you’re almost fearless.
President Trump has challenged Congress to reduce the burden on the American worker and to build an economy that rewards honest work. Congress should accept that challenge and craft a bipartisan plan that makes real reductions in what government demands from our wallets.
I am very rewarded and challenged in front of the camera.
I have serious hearing loss. I’m challenged if I don’t have my hearing aids in.
I realised that identity always seemed to be an issue when it was challenged – thats when it seemed to be most in 3D, so that you could look at it.
One of the things that’s influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
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.
I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
The renaissance movement and social reformers have taught us that superstitious beliefs and customs should be challenged and opposed.
Once you achieve a goal and you are on that high, you have to consciously pull yourself in to say, ‘I need to have the same hunger and desire as when I had nothing.’ That’s the hardest thing to do in life. That is getting challenged every single day once you win titles.
You’ll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you’ll be challenged and growing and having fun.
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.
Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It’s unrealistic to expect that you’re not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.
If you’re successful in what you do over a period of time, you’ll start approaching records, but that’s not what you’re playing for. You’re playing to challenge and be challenged.
What to do with a leading business that’s challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple’s willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product’s features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston… I saw this man’s dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, ‘You either shape up or ship out.’ When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can’t ship out.
