Challenge is a common English word that is used generically for many different namedcompetitions and for things that are imbued with a sense ofdifficulty and victory.
Believe me, I've only been doing myjob. Someone has to keep theflame. Someone has to weed out those who haven't got what it takes. You see, thechampions, thelegends, they serve as apurpose, a challenge, an incentive. ~George Clayton JohnsonEveryone needs a challenge, Jesse- someone great out of thepast to say, "match what I've done, boy, and make it better. That's true in all walks oflife-music,politics,sports, you name it. ~George Clayton Johnson
Principal Skinner: Of course we could make things more challenging, Lisa but then the stupiderstudents would be in here complaining furrowing their brows in a vain attempt tounderstand the situation.
If not, resolve, before we go, That you and I must pull a crow. Y' 'ad best (quoth Ralpho), as the Ancients Say wisely, have a care o' the main chance.
Samuel Butler,Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto II, line 499.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
James Howard "Fats" Brown:Believe me, I've only been doing myjob. Someone has to keep theflame. Someone has to weed out those who haven't got what it takes. You see, thechampions, thelegends, they serve as apurpose, a challenge, an incentive.
Jesse Cardiff: I don't need a challenge.
James Howard "Fats" Brown: Everyone needs a challenge, Jesse- someone great out of thepast to say, "match what I've done, boy, and make it better. That's true in all walks oflife-music,politics,sports, you name it.
George Clayton Johnson, "A Game of Pool",[The Twilight Zone|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)]], (October 13, 1961).
Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Norrin Radd: Those to whom no distant horizons beckon ... for whom no challenges remain ... though they have inherited aUniverse ... they possess only empty sand!
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell, as quoted in Crainer'sThe Ultimate Book of Business Quotations (1997), p. 258.
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare. If you cannot be present even in normal circumstances, such as when you are sitting alone in a room, walking in the woods, or listening to someone, then you certainly won't be able to stay conscious when something "goes wrong" or you are faced with difficult people or situations, with loss or the threat of loss. You will be taken over by a reaction, which ultimately is always some form of fear, and pulled into deep unconsciousness. Thosechallenges are your tests.
When such challenges come, as they always do, make it a habit to go within at once and focus as much as you can on the inner energy field of your body. This need not take long, just a few seconds. But you need to do it the moment that the challenge presents itself. Any delay will allow a conditioned mental-emotional reaction to arise and take you over.
