Quotes about Challenge

Embrace the tension.

When we become psychologically dependent upon crisis, it actually becomes our life motivator, and if we don't have a present crisis, we'll learn to create one.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

The payoff for a life of adversity is freedom.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.