Challenging Tasks Quotes

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

Diplomacy is tough, slogging, slow work—and hard work.

The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.

It is either easy or impossible.

I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

The best role is something that's challenging. Fun is great, but when it's challenging, you get to overcome barriers, and when you see the finished product, it's very rewarding.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

There is nothing like getting a performance-oriented role.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

I like solving problems that seem intractable. That's how I thrive.

Looking back, the most challenging thing for me was actually directing. It's very tough. Being in front of the camera is easy since the director can tell me what to do. But being the director and giving people directions is the toughest thing for me.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.