Challenging Environments Quotes

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.

We have to get to a point in this country where our top players are seeking out the most challenging environments.

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

I was exemplifying the Olympian who took up a challenge as a sportsman, without a trainer, in a country without mountains and without snow. And, inside of two years, I was representing my country.

It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources.

I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs, if you hate late nights. The snowy cold, the worst conditions you can get, put yourself in those and really make it inconvenient and you start to get a genuine expectation of winning for the price you have to pay.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Service people are capable. They gain world-class professional skills while in uniform. They use those skills in the most challenging places, showing the kind of teamwork and leadership most of us can only dream of.

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

International football's not always about playing the top three in the world - it's about going to some of the tougher places around Europe and playing real tough games.

When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.

Every album I've done pretty much has been not in a pleasant, quote-unquote, environment - it's freezing cold, or it was somebody's house with not-that-great equipment. It's always something that spurs on to get the job done.

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

The thing I enjoy is that I have come to league as a union player, and I have to adapt to different situations I am facing.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Any voice where you've got to scream over a battle or whatever, that's always difficult. It's harder than it seems.

I'm used to being in uncomfortable situations. I actually thrive in uncomfortable environments.

If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.