Sentences with phrase «n't take on the challenge»

If I didn't take on the challenge, I would be still feeling the same, with no energy and limited perspective.

Not exact matches

«The greatest risk is not on the battlefield but in standing up for what's right,» McRaven told the cadets, adding, «The truly great officers know that real victory is achieved when men and women of character take professional risks and challenge the weak - kneed, the faint of heart, the indecisive, or the bullies.»

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Strong leaders lead by example, which means they take on all the same challenges as their team, if not more.

«Italy, which is not a great power, can not take on complex challenges without a strong political consensus,» D'Alema said.

Shaich says he isn't sure whether other executives — many of whom he says he considers friends — will take him up on his challenge.

«We think people are motivated by more than just money, and sometimes a promotion satisfies a person's quest not just to take home a bigger paycheck but to take on bigger challenges and be proud of more then the amount of money they make.

When we started our Lunchbox Challenge, we weren't sure who would be brave enough to take on the bologna sandwich.

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

Faced with the challenges of motivating people to take action on things like pension contributions, getting health insurance or going to college, Barack Obama didn't roll the dice on a Super Bowl spot.

«The Commission will not take adverse action on a license renewal application based upon the subjective determination of a listener or group of listeners that the station has broadcast purportedly inappropriate programming,» the FCC commissioners wrote in a recent decision challenging a local radio station license.

Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.

After President Trump took office in 2017, the challenge in Judge Hanen's court had not yet reached a final legal conclusion because there had never been a full - scale trial on the legality of the November 2014 actions by President Obama.

If you are spending 60 % of your monthly take - home pay on your mortgage payment alone, balancing your budget will be challenging so long as you remain in your home or don't find additional income.

There are two major «challenges» in Atlantic Canada that Cohort aims to take on: (1) founders that raise a significant funding round find it hard to engage with peers, (2) there are not enough very early founders receiving «get started» funding from people that can help them at that early stage.

This is not the first time the team has taken on such a feat; for most of them, this is the fifth consecutive year in which they take to the saddle for a punishing long - distance cycling challenge.

With «Filling The Void In Early Retirement With Part - Time Work,» I hinted at my desire to take on a new challenge, especially since I don't expect my online business to grow much this year due to a normalization in search traffic.

When considering all of these issues, if we are unable to reach into the soul of the entrepreneur to motivate them, give them confidence and empower them to take on the numerous challenges, overcome the many regional barriers and fight the normal storms of entrepreneurship, specifically through mentoring, the investment made in all other areas of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, particularly financial capital, will not produce a favorable and / or optimized return.

Not to say that it isn't challenging sometimes, strange and awkward even, but I think there is a lot of give and take going on.

If you are not permitted to challenge the Bible, then you will have a very hard time challenging modern psych as well, for they both take on the very unquestionable personality of the same alleged authority.

But since you personally do nt like the possibility that your comfortable world view could be wrong, you rely on science (as far as it can take you) and theories (that do nt challenge your world view).

Ill bet u camping camping crouch hal lindsey copeland hinn any religiose millionaier 1million dollars my soul that the rapture will not happen anytime soon especially in may ever it will only happen on the sabbath saturday midnight after the great tribulation at the 7th trumpet after the anticrhist is revealed and only during the passover april 10th ~ 18th or sept 10th ~ oct 10th only and it wont even get near to happening until sept 2012 will any one take the challenge id love to prove all these peoples false prophets noticed I only gave time day hour just like jesus said not adding to word or calling god a lier or blaspheming like all afore mentioned do every day knowinly lieng and stealing well whos up to it?

With the exception of predatory behaviors that take advantage of the vulnerable among us, we should concentrate on cleaning up our own act, rather than remaking others into our own image so that their presence is not challenge our narcissistic psychological comfort zones.

However, as I've gotten older, I've developed a less idealistic perspective on adoption, realizing that adoption carries with it its own set of challenges, challenges I don't want to take lightly.

The sermons that are preached from our pulpits may not be as bad as mine was, but most Father's Day sermons tend to beat up on dads rather than encourage them and challenge them to dream big, take risks for God, embark on an adventure, charge ahead, and be a man!

I think often we read ourselves as Jesus and others as the Pharisees too — I don't think I've heard many sermons taking what Jesus says to the Pharisees as a direct challenge to us, as opposed to assuming that we're on Jesus» side and confronting those who disagree with us.

It drove me crazy to watch people, when challenged on the facts, say that they never said it or that they didn't mean how we took it or that we heard them wrong or that there were technical issues.

In other words, faith is a formless, empty void that you can fill with whatever you want and take out when it suits you if you aren't happy with it, or when you've been challenged on it.

I would challenge the assertion he has made on his blog «That person, even after I corrected them, still took that to mean that I said, «God both exists and does not exist» — yeah, right!»

I find that, odd... like fishon could not take where this was going and when his reasoning on issues is challenged he still refuses to learn from it.

But since, as it seems, white churchmen can not deal boldly with the issue of integration, they can hardly be expected to take on the more challenging issue of justice.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

How we are to evaluate and challenge creatively the heirs of modern liberalism depends on what we take freedom to be, and not to be.

We usually aren't strictly vegan or gluten - free, but were so flattered by the offer that we didn't have to think more than 2 seconds before answering them that we would happily take it on as a challenge (while dancing a silly dance and singing «We are working with BA, we are working with BA...»).

I am currently taking a short career break and while sat at home (working out what on earth i'm going to do with my future), it's been very challenging to click onto instagram and not feel as though everybody elses lives are working out perfectly.

«The challenge was not to take on all of the problems at once, but to stay focused on the goals of the first project.»

Many small - to medium - sized produce companies are unwilling to take on the challenge of growing, packing and shipping; they typically outsource one or more of those services to third parties — but not Frontera Produce.

I wasn't sure if I could recreate her recipe to make it gluten - free, but I took on the challenge for the Gluten - Free Progressive Dinner Party (see below!).

I admit, this didn't sound all that appealing to me at the start, but I took on the challenge and I was very happy with the results.

While I am not chowing down on sugar - laced cereal with a prize buried in the bottom of the box, I know I could do better by including fruit and nuts into the mix, but the challenge is that it must come together in the same amount of time it takes to pour Cheerios and milk.

So when I caught wind that Janice was searching for a healthier no grain replacement for her husband's favorite lemon bread, I couldn't wait to take on the challenge.

I'm not gluten free, but my friend is, so when I invited her over to help celebrate my birthday, I took on the challenge of finding a delicious gluten - free chocolate cake.

What a great post, not that I'll be taking on this challenge anytime soon, but I love the whole idea of these little mini pies.

The retail sector in the Middle East is evolving fast, not least due to its overwhelmingly young population, and retailers face a major challenge in responding to the changing needs of consumers for fresh - cut and convenience products, for local produce, for organics, for online delivery options and for international brands, with many retailers taking on more control of the supply chain by importing direct from the source.

JM's ego does not permit him to take on difficult options / challenges where failure is a possibility or where the cheque - book remains closed.

This isn't the kind of opportunity that comes around very often, and I'm all about taking on new challenges.

I think it is cowardly that a manager of Wenger's calibre doesn't want to take on the risks, pressures and responsibilities that comes with spending big on quality players, completing the squad and having players that put you in a position to strongly (and legitimately) challenge for titles.

(3) formation flexibility — it took 20 years for Wenger to return to a back 3 and now he can't seem to choose anything but that formation... the teams in the premiership and those we could face in the Europa will present vastly different tactics and we need to have a manager who can prepare this squad for this eventuality and have the fortitude to make the necessary adjustments throughout the season... I have seen nothing in the past 6 - 7 years to suggest that he is the man to take on this challenge... I can't even remember when he changed formations when he would replace a small, pacy striker, like during the Walcott experiment, with the lumbering Giroud... of course this is exactly why there is no other manager in the world that plays more players out of their natural positions (square peg in a round hole)

Tiger Woods mania is real and it's spectacular — and it's not just the talking heads on Golf Channel who are beside themselves with glee as the man of the hour takes his place atop the Hero World Challenge scoreboard.

These two events were really something I seriously enjoyed taking part in, and despite the fact they were both quite challenging, not only in the preparation but also on the day, this definitely meant that I took something away from both of the events that will be very valuable to me.