#challenged

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#brown #challenged #come #expectations #experience

People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#challenged #escapist #fare #people #see

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ↗

— Stephen King

#censorship #challenged-books #freedom-of-speech #freedom

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#because #challenged #chefs #chemistry #consider

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#best #between #challenged #difference #doing

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#ends #film #films #handle #how

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#being #career #challenged #happy #i

So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#along #always #ball #better #challenged