The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she’s deeply grateful for her life. I don’t think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else.
Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That’s always a challenge.
No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.
The fact is that my mother is a cop and generally kids of cops are a little different from their parents – they tend to be quiet. In my case, I was never interested in joining the police force, because right from my childhood I have seen the challenges in a cop’s life.
I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.
To help inform my work in Congress, I consistently need to gather information about the healthcare challenges facing Central Virginia patients, providers, and local officials on the ground.
If we want to make workplaces more open, we need to acknowledge logistical challenges… by being more open, it might create a path for other women.
In today’s interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
I’m sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I’m sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.
I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven’t been grave challenges facing newspapers.
I don’t think lying has any ultimate justification. I don’t think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That’s one of the challenges in a way.
Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
I can’t separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.
I am pleased to be part of Promontory’s steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.
My restaurant, Tex Wasabi’s, we have a whole ‘Minute to Win It’ challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn’t even aired and they’re already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it’s going to take over.
Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.
One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world’s nations.
Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we’ll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
When you’ve already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.
One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
It’s clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we’ve created in the structure of the system.
You can’t let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That’s why I don’t go climb mountains.
Any time there is ‘un-forgiveness’ between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don’t understand… there is suffering.
Life is short, and nobody knows what’s around the corner, but I’m up for lots of new challenges.
For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don’t do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.
Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.
I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, I’ve logged more than 5,000 miles driving across the country to see first-hand how digital technologies are unleashing opportunity in U.S. communities and to understand the connectivity challenges many Americans face.
Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That’s why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
It’s important to set challenges that you’re not sure you’re equal to.
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
Certainly in my appetite for more challenges, it’s very much alive. I love comedy and it comes to me in a natural way.
One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don’t have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.
The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.
When I was in graduate school, I became very interested in why some kids took on challenges and were able to bounce back from setbacks whereas others shy away from difficulty and really crumble when they hit failures. I became fascinated with people who had that kind of courage to take on challenges.
I think each role has had different challenges.
The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It’s part of why I was so driven.
I like challenges. That’s why if I read a script, and I feel, ‘Oh, I can’t do this,’ I’ll take that role, because if I feel like, ‘Oh, I can do this,’ I don’t want to take that because I can’t learn from that film.
I’m a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we’re going to encounter in our own period of service.
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others – people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
