Challenging Quotes

“It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Used in combination with genomics, AI could help pharma companies to develop new drugs for rare diseases. The rarer a disease is, the smaller the market is and so the less likely it is to have been addressed. Big pharma is hesitant to take on the high development costs for new drugs if there’s no sign of a return on investment. Biological processes are complex, and that means that they lead to multidimensional data that human beings struggle to wrap their heads around. The good news is that AI is the perfect tool to spot patterns in this kind of data.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

“When it comes to meditation, one minute is better than zero. Something is an improvement from nothing.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

“Focusing on and prioritizing civil discourse ensures that you don’t miss great opportunities to learn and grow with others.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

“When we feel the cards are stacked against us, and we have to confront the arresting questions of our walks of life, we may happen to face up to an “apocalypse.” When we meet head-on a disclosure of a “new” truth and come to terms with the destruction of our “old” reality, the disparity might be very challenging, but conceivably liberating as well. ("Looking for the unexpected" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we keep on beating about circumstantial futilities and remain plodding along in the hollowness of weasel words, we need not expect to discover genuine answers to fundamental questions challenging us. ("Wit of the staircase")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“In a sense, trust is simply a stronger, more grounded version of faith.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

“I can’t believe the way people act and the cruelty they have towards those they say they love or once loved...”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”
― Leonard Ravenhill

“To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“When I was a cop me and my partner saw plenty of his handiwork. Yeah, we pulled his handiwork out a the water by the docks, we saw it in the bloody alleys, we saw it in cars burnt up on the side of the roads…”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Writing history is slippery, there is little Truth with an upper case T, but a lot of lower-case “truths” that are filtered through the perceptions of others.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“The Wallace-Ali relationship reflects the great mythic “hero’s journey.” Wallace might be seen as the Mentor/Wise Old Man, Ali as the naïve young hero who grows as the story evolves.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?”
― Laurie Faria Stolarz, Deadly Little Lies

“Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass….”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.”
― Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“Be careful of using the word normal around cancer patients, whether they call themselves a survivor or not, there is no 'back to normal'.”
― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“Successful friendship, like successful therapy, is a balance of deference and defiance. It involves showing positive regard, but also calling people on their self-deceptions. The Buddhists have a useful phrase for unconditional positive regard: “idiot compassion,” which is the kind of empathy that never challenges people’s stories or threatens to hurt their feelings. It consoles but also conceals.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“Why everybody in such a hurry to get old?”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Birthright: What They Left Behind

“Do yourself a favour and get out.'

Bellius rose to his full height, wings flaring. 'Or what?'

Nesta picked at her nails. 'I don't think you want to find out the or what part.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“He stayed by my side challenging me with truth, even when I was a biased, naïve, and arrogant scoffer. He would love me into wholeness, through each step of the mess and mire.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“It is indeed challenging to consider a dream within a dream as a dream, almost like getting lost within oneself.”
― Hafsa Tahir, Segue of Spiritual Whispers: Baat Se Baat

“It is indeed challenging to consider a dream within a dream as a dream, almost like getting lost within oneself.”
― Wasif Ali Wasif, Segue of Spiritual Whispers: Baat Se Baat

“Please don't compare me to a man who couldn't appreciate you for all you have to offer, Sable. The anguish in his voice - in his eyes - was real.
I told you shouldn't short-change your dreams. I would make sure you had the resources you need to return to your work. Hell, I just told you to come to Malibu once you've ready-"
"I'm so grateful for that. You were the one who made me see that I couldn't go back to Baton Rogue just because I craved me the love of family during a challenging time. You helped me see the consequences of compromising too much of myself, and I can't thank you enough for making me see that.”
― Joanne Rock, A Nine-Month Temptation

“Majesty refuses the passive appeasement liberally bred by lesser things. Rather, majesty is brazenly audacious in a manner entirely dangerous but indomitable safe. Majesty calls us out to places that we cannot control and experiences that we cannot predict. It rails against the sedentary propensities of our dull humanity and rallies us to a greatness inherent in our design but squashed by our fears. It offers us an experience beyond ourselves that always existed within ourselves. And to forfeit such a great thing is to die on the catacombs of lesser things.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So imposing your modern-day perspective on a manuscript thousands of years old is the best way to understand the Bible? Choose an interpretation that makes you feel good?”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Flight of Shadows

“Mindsets, and not just skillsets, make the critical difference in dealing to take on challenging situations.”
― Kouzes/Posner, Leadership Challenge 4th E

“Challenges situation leads to development of new strategies.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When I advocated resistance I certainly didn't mean that," said Curtis, looking guiltily over at the little blue dot.

"What did you mean?" said Carol.

“Well, I meant some, ah, conversational resistance,” Curtis said, blinking nervously. “A period during which we would say challenging but polite things, things which might cause them to possibly consider reassessing their positions vis-à-vis us.”
― George Saunders, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil