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Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
William Bennett
You
Yourself
Overcome
Challenge
Will
Master
Difficulty
Give
Develop
Powers
Greater
Than
Trying
Original
Even
Necessary
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
Great
Our
Resources
Crises
Vital
Emergencies
Had
Supposed
Greater
How
How Much
Than
Us
Much
Show
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill
Battles
General
More
He
Demands
Greater
Won
Maneuver
Less
Slaughter
Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.
Yemi Osinbajo
Building
State
Economic
Economic Growth
Importance
Greater
Without
Greater Importance
Nation-Building
Sustainable
Even
Growth
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.
Chuck Palahniuk
Faith
Training
Imagination
Tooth
Tooth Fairy
Easter
Seem
Purpose
Toward
Steps
Like
Fairy
Greater
Exercises
Real
Bunny
Behind
Santa
Santa Claus
Payoff
Each
Cognitive
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
You
Challenge
Expectation
Someone
Relying
Greater
His
Than
Satisfaction
Vindicate
If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Myself
Good
Me
You
Better
Would
Able
Seem
Something
Importance
Greater
Greater Importance
Than
Role
May
Ordinarily
Things
Imagine
Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
A. Philip Randolph
Great
Class
Sexes
All Races
Struggling
Spokesman
Greater
Lincoln
Than
Races
Working
Working-Class
Creeds
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
A. R. Rahman
You
People
Writing
Become
Films
Those
India
Promotion
Promotions
About
Songs
Demand
Come
Greater
Makes
Becomes
Western
Very
Five
Hit
Different
Movie
Which
Theater
Then
Originality
Based
Conscious
Need
As an actor, the best way I can hope to promote greater social understanding is through my work. If I can communicate with people and touch their hearts through 'Dangal,' perhaps, eventually, I can help change their minds.
Aamir Khan
Work
Hope
Best
Change
People
Communicate
Understanding
Minds
Way
Promote
Best Way
Touch
Through
Perhaps
Greater
Hearts
Social
Help
Actor
Eventually
No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Quality
Management
Enthusiasm
Edge
Dubai
Nation
Few
Innovations
Embraced
Total
Rate
Given
Could
Accelerate
Greater
Match
Than
Growth
Growth Rate
Competitive
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
Abigail Disney
Love
Good
People
Sense
Telling
Only
Empathy
Know
Also
Greater
Greater Good
Achieved
Them
Filling
Need
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson
Work
Finds
More
Perfect
He
Part
Attention
Particular
Greater
Quantities
His
Hands
Any
Artist
Confine
Productions
Grow
Anybody that wants to be something greater than themselves, that understands that bringing meaning and intention into work and bringing those two things together, is a member of the 'we generation,' and the money tends to follow.
Adam Neumann
Work
Together
Generation
Money
Those
Member
Follow
Something
Tends
Greater
Understands
Than
Intention
Anybody
Wants
Meaning
Themselves
Things
Bringing
Two
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
Adam Schiff
Constitution
Achieve
Diversity
Giving
System
Some
Diverse
Points
Students
Greater
Alumni
How
Upheld
Children
Quota
Less
Awarding
Violation
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith
You
Science
Lose
Approach
Adventure
Tickets
Greater
Lottery
Certain
Your
Certainty
Nearer
Number
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai Stevenson II
Dreams
Freedom
Protection
Car
Nothing
Live
Aim
Television
Television Set
More
Ideal
Another
Greater
Without
Than
Means
Even
Second
Set
I think public sector banks need to have greater private participation of people who have skin in the game.
Ajay Piramal
Game
People
Skin
Think
Sector
Participation
Greater
Private
Banks
Public
Who
Public Sector
Need
Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was made known to them that they were called children of God, as it is written, 'Ye are the children of the Lord your God.'
Akiva ben Joseph
Love
God
Made
Written
Known
Greater
Lord
Israel
Still
Were
Children
Them
Your
Beloved
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.
Al Gore
You
Sky
Will
Energy
High
India
Rate
Price
Support
Thus
Demand
New
Greater
Because
Foreign
Foreign Oil
Go
Discoveries
Up
Dependence
Oil
Want
China
China And India
Declining
Should
Coal
Your
Bills
Growing
Ever
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Alain de Botton
Respect
People
Otherwise
Secure
Would
Seek
Through
Attention
Look
Greater
Than
May
Straight
Us
Fortune
Reason
Who
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
Alan Dean Foster
Life
Politics
Hope
Art
Me
You
People
Better
Become
Understanding
Differences
Living
Considerably
Characters
Would
Insight
Given
More
Only
Gives
Better Understanding
Greater
How
Affect
Cultural
Personalities
Rounded
Deeper
Travels
Wider
To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing of ink on paper, followed by throwing away the paper and depositing new ink on more paper - can actually tell us something about reality.
Alan Guth
Reality
Joy
Paper
Tell
See
Followed
About
Something
More
Physicist
Throwing
New
Calculation
Call
Greater
Than
Curious
Us
Theoretical
Activity
Away
Ink
Actually
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
Alan Hovhaness
Culture
Emotions
Beginning
Own
Older
About
My Own
Know
Armenian
Well
Identity
Although
Greater
Grew
Anything
Found
The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
Alastair Campbell
Sometimes
First
Late
Pressures
Wrong
Greater
Than
Get
Story
Right
The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.
Albert Bandura
People
Better
Seriously
Consider
Range
Perceived
Higher
Pursuits
Greater
Occupational
Options
Interest
Them
Themselves
Choose
Prepare
Level
Wider
Career
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