Quotes about Challenges
This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people
— Anne Lamott
Will call him a she when the pee-pee is gone. Says Brave is to endure stares, jeers, prejudice. He won't.
— Anne Lamott
How did we all get so screwed up? Putting aside our damaged parents, poverty, abuse, addiction, disease, and other unpleasantries, life just damages people. There is no way around this.
— Anne Lamott
We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned out, that there were almost no people of color, and that if we didn't get more help, we'd have to close down.
— Anne Lamott
Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do. It's all right for you to be mad, but...try to be as good a sport as you can. I'll tell you. It's a run-of-the-mill shitty thing. Life is full of them. And it is ALWAYS feels better to be kind.
— Anne Lamott
I have a quote taped to my office wall from an anonymous source that says, 'Love is hard. Love is ... seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.
— Anne Lamott
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
— Anne Lamott
The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.
— Seth Godin
The Dip is the long stretch between beginner's luck and real accomplishment. The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out.
— Seth Godin
If you never fail, either you're really lucky or you haven't shipped anything.
— Seth Godin
The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it's there. Knowing that you're facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.
— Seth Godin
Tennis has a Dip. The difference between a mediocre club player and a regional champion isn't inborn talent—it's the ability to push through the moments where it's just easier to quit. Politics has a Dip as well—it's way more fun to win an election than to lose one, and the entire process is built around many people starting while most people quit.
— Seth Godin