Daunting Quotes
130 quotes by 125 authors
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A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense…
— Noah Scalin
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"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing…
— Kenny Smith
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real…
— Gavin Newsom
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For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
— Thomas Keating
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.
— Frances Mayes
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We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest…
— Wayne LaPierre
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A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't…
— Michael Franti
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Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk…
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth,
— Walter Smith
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In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now.…
— Rachel Stevens
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In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate…
— Robert Anasi
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass…
— Michelle Alexander
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We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use…
— Edward Mazria
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Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don’t have to get from A to Z. You just…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems…
— Christopher
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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly…
— John Crowe Ransom
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Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe…
— Farrah Fawcett
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You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question…
— Daniel H. Pink
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To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is…
— Chris Hedges
Who Wrote These Daunting Quotes
125 authors contributed a total of 130 Daunting Quotes, led by these top contributors: