The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a doll face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes.
Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.
We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. [. . . ] The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.
The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.
President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.
The real lesson of 911 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.
Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.
The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.
I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.
One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me. " Sometimes the situation calls for less you.
Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.
The biggest challenge [making Pineapple Express] was that we had a comedy budget. We really got excited the more we got into the development of it about blowing stuff up and having shoot outs. That stuff costs money.
The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us. Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.
The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world. . . The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.
Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.