The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.
Sharing our experience with pregnancy was incredibly important because we realized how challenging and difficult that was, and there are really dark moments where you think you're alone.
I've actually come to respect the most irritatingly challenging people I've worked with as really valuable in improving group decision-making and what to do and what to invest in.
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.
In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.
Consumer electronics is a challenging one.
The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
While I find my job as an actor challenging, I also think that there's fun in that challenge.
'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Work is no longer challenging.
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.
As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.
I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.
I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.