Quotes about Challenges

If we think of life as a kind of Olympic games, some of life's crises are sprints. They require maximum emotional concentration for a short time. Then they are over, and life returns to normal. But other crises are distance events. They ask us to maintain our concentration over a much longer period of time, and that can be a lot harder.

There are over seven billion of us today.

A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world.

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

Men with anger do not know how to deal with unreasonable, pushy people, particularly women.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.