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Challenge Quotes
Technical, national, and deeply personal challenges.
This mix of challenge quotes is wider than most — one addresses cloud security as a solvable technical problem, another sits inside open questions in astrophysics around pulsars and gravitational waves. Related word forms appear in Challenging quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
- Drunks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
- Overcoming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like clever men who challenge you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must lift ourselves for every challenge we face, no matter who you are playing - and that applies especially to the national team.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did, like, two drop-in hip-hop dance classes when I was, like, 20, so I am no dance expert but I always love a challenge.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020