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"Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty."
"Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening."
"For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk."
"Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches."
"For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma."
"I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to."
"Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have."
"Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds."
"Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing."
"Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting."
"Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating."
"The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person."
"I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can."
"The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge."
"being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you."
"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."
"The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit."
"Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it."
"A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse."
"Stumbling is not falling."
