I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge go for it. If there's a wall to break down break it down.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

The art challenges the technology and the technology inspires the art.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.

After my second-to-last record 'The Greatest' I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor the challenge of tapping into that reaching down into that sadness or anger is very therapeutic.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

First of all plain and simple you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone challenging myself to run faster and higher.

In today's interdependent world a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam I can challenge my government but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk rejection or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation they check to see which way their friends are going.

One of the great challenges of our age in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor but for an actor of a young age it's going to be even tougher.