Personal Challenge Quotes

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

I watched the 'Food, Inc.' documentary and was like, 'This has opened my eyes to the meat industry - maybe I should go vegetarian.' And my friend told me, 'Sadie, you're not gonna last a week.' But I'm very competitive.

Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.

I wrestled in front of seven people one time.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appetite is whet to go deeper. It's fun, and it's challenging, and it stretches me. I'm not saying I'm done with comedy by any stretch of the imagination. I'm saying, yeah, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

It's been my dream to race in F1 since I was eight. I don't see why that should change just because I've changed. It's a big challenge but I like to push myself. The accident has toughened me up and made me realise what's important. It's spurred me on to get to F1.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

When somebody says I can't do something, it motivates me to do it.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.

In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?

I always want to write something better than the last book.

I have my moments of insecurity and figuring out what's going on and what I'm supposed to do, but if you don't push yourself, you're not growing, so where do you go?

I was going into a slump during 'Ironman.' I found out I was a diabetic around that time, and I was just stressed out. My mind wasn't all the way there.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.