Quotes about Challenges

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

The Dip is the long stretch between beginner's luck and real accomplishment. The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out.

If you never fail, either you're really lucky or you haven't shipped anything.

The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it's there. Knowing that you're facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.

Tennis has a Dip. The difference between a mediocre club player and a regional champion isn't inborn talent—it's the ability to push through the moments where it's just easier to quit. Politics has a Dip as well—it's way more fun to win an election than to lose one, and the entire process is built around many people starting while most people quit.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

Every knock is a boost.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?