About every other week, I sit down with all of our new Zynga hires and I talk to them for about 90 minutes, have an open Q&A. There is no formal presentation. I talk about our values, where they came from and why they are so important, and I ask them to challenge those values.
I love a challenge, and I love challenging people’s preconceptions.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will work, you have to get costs down so it is competitive with fossil fuels.
When I left Manchester I just took that as a challenge – to try to prove people wrong. And when you do, there is no better feeling than that. I knew in my gut it was the right time to move and I just believed.
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.
We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We’re doing what we enjoy, and we’re not just playing for each other, we’re playing for the people.
I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn’t that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?
There is always a place I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That’s my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Outwardly, I may look quiet, but deep inside, I’m full of this sense of challenge. I’m always striving to work harder, to improve by learning, to do better and keep dreaming.
Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.
I always design with the occasion in mind, so I particularly enjoy creating bespoke pieces; it’s always an exciting challenge for me creatively.
One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can’t help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.
If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, ‘Hey, where is the innovation?’ The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
There’s always someone that’s dealing with a bigger challenge than you are. You’ve gotta have perspective.
My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can’t merely be that it’s big and has a place in the market.
The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.
Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need to surmount.
The potential financial reward for building the ‘next Windows’ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
I like to be consistent so I like to challenge myself with consistency.
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I’ll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
This is my experience on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race:’ three square meals a day, a challenge and put to bed by 9:30 P. M. Honey it doesn’t get any better than that.
I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.
To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it’s trivial or not time-bound, you won’t engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
I think it’s healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it’s important to do that.
They’re simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there’s no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
If you’re ready to give yourself a little challenge, take a walk and mix in short bouts of jogging. It can boost your calorie burn and give you much needed cardiovascular benefits.
I think we are here to challenge ourselves and make ourselves better people and not just sit around in the world simply floating through life. You should be trying to do something great and making yourself better. You should be trying to evolve. That’s what I’m trying to do, and that is very important to me.
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.
I like good stories. Quality products and character are what’s important. Even if the script isn’t that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I’ll go for it.
Singapore is a pretty fantastic place, and the race is always a challenge.
It’s a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.
I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that’s it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don’t leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest.
The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.
The biggest and most interesting challenge is to bring Elsa Schiaparelli’s legacy to the present and the future. She had an exceptional, incredible, and intelligent approach; she was ahead of her times.
I’m a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.
We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It’s a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It’s a real challenge for composers.
I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play – a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Working in Isaac’s universe was more of a treat than a challenge.
Well as an actor I think i try to do my best and play the characters that inspire me and challenge me.
My definition of patriotism is that it is unconscionable for you to disrespect the flag. You can be a patriot and challenge the government without disrespecting the flag.
