challenging quotes

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.