All Quotes

The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
‐‐ Christopher McQuarrie

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

The challenge is always to find the good place to end the book. The rule I follow with myself is that every book should end where the next book would logically begin. I know that some readers wish that literally all of the threads would be neatly tied off and snipped, but life just doesn't work that way.
‐‐ Robin Hobb

The challenge is, how do you take someone who's supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants.
‐‐ Rich Moore

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
‐‐ Valerie June

The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.
‐‐ Damian Woetzel

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
‐‐ Kate Brown

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

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.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

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.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.
‐‐ Scott Ellis

The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.
‐‐ Maryam D'Abo

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).
‐‐ Martin Rees

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
‐‐ Oprah Winfrey

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
‐‐ Antonio Gramsci

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.
‐‐ Annette Curtis Klause

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
‐‐ Adrian Lyne

The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
‐‐ Ferdinand Marcos

The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
‐‐ Ferdinand Marcos

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.
‐‐ John Hutton

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
‐‐ Brian Moynihan

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
‐‐ Mac Thornberry

The challenge with a candidate like Donald Trump is he's not a conventional candidate, and he doesn't run a conventional campaign, and he doesn't answer questions in a conventional way.
‐‐ Joel Benenson

The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.
‐‐ John Hagel III

The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
‐‐ Zack Snyder

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.
‐‐ Jann Wenner

The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.
‐‐ Michael Muller

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton