With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land,… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion;… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take… — Marshall Ulrich Copy Share Image
François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some… — Justin Willman Copy Share Image
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“But because humans are intensely social animals, they also faced a recurring set of crucial social evolutionary challenges. These evolutionary challenges include… — Vladas Griskevicius Copy Share Image
I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward.… — Jerry I. Porras Copy Share Image
We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations… — Tomislav Nikolic Copy Share Image
Under the current U.S. policy, because of this power struggle, American oil companies can't do business with Iran. So I think the… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
I'm not twentysomething. I'm not trying to find myself - I know exactly who I am and exactly what I want. And… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
“Most people assume that the challenges that go along with growing a large business are greater than those of growing a smaller… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
If I'm having a challenging moment, I jump for joy. Literally. After a minute, I feel better, and after a few minutes,… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
One of the problems many leaders report is a gap between strategy and execution. Usually this "gap" arises because the so-called "strategy"… — Richard P. Rumelt Copy Share Image
The single best way to develop leaders . . . is to take people out of their safe environment and away from… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Immigrants to America help us with the work they do. They challenge us with new ideas, and they give us perspective. This… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image