"It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing."
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"When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness."
"Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge."
"The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past."
"Fire destroys that which feeds it."
"The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives."
"United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder."
"I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was."
"People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself."
"Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind."
"To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges."
"No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life."
"Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it's the right choice to trusting it's the right choice."
"The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood."
"By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges."
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur."
"Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation."
"I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person."
"My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality."
"The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed."