Claire Messud Quotes

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

I'm one of those people who always needs a mountain to climb. When I get up a mountain as far as I think I'm going to get, I try to find another mountain.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

I have always liked a challenge.

I've always loved a challenge.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

I push myself to the limit.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

From flying in the cockpit of an A-10 to chairing hearings on Capitol Hill, I've learned that each of us will face struggles as we pursue our goals.

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.

The hardest part sometimes is when you don't get the reps and you continue to push yourself to learn and understand what's really going on.

I may be one of the most competitive people you ever know. I want to win every snap, every game, even though it was not possible... it really wasn't about the conquest, it was about the challenge.

Thinking about my career, nothing ever came easy for me.

I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.

I'm always pushing myself.

Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the hardest thing has never wrestled. That's what I have found. ... You don't wrestle because it's easy, you wrestle because it's hard. I don't do astrophysics because it's easy, I do it because it's hard. And I juxtapose the two in my mind, body, and soul all the time.

I always wanted to be a winner, to score goals. There was no massive bravery in terms of my mum passing away and stepping up. I just wanted to score. I know everyone would have given me a pass on it if I hadn't taken it. But I'd have had the hump with myself if I'd shirked it.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

To choose always the hardest.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.