Thabo Mbeki Quotes

I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

The biggest challenge of being the press secretary is trying to be aware of all of the things that are happening, both around the world but also here at home and in politics, and trying to absorb all of that information as quickly as I can.

My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That's all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

You have to absolutely commit to whatever your process is and attack that process every single day, of trying to get better, take steps forward, without getting caught up in the immediate results that everybody wants to see. That's probably the biggest challenge.

The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I love any sentence that begins with Daddy...? because it's implied they're looking up to you - that you'll have the answer. The truth is, I don't have any answers.

I'm not twentysomething. I'm not trying to find myself - I know exactly who I am and exactly what I want. And I don't want a fan. I want a man who understands me, who challenges me, who calls me on my sh-t instead of letting me get away with it because I'm supposed to be a star. I want a best friend.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other things I have not succeeded in doing, I would consider my political career to have been a resounding success.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

I'm trying to keep it fresh for me. I'm just trying to not bore myself. And if I can do a detective novel, and if I can do a horror novel, then why do it again? To keep the work challenging I have to keep moving.