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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it's not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.

If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.

Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.

My mistake in my relationships has been to feel that I can do it all on my own: 'I don't need a man.' That is definitely a mistake. Women generally want to feel loved and appreciated. It's something that I am working on every day, trust me! It's a challenge for me to do that.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go,