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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana. -- Phil Jackson
The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place. -- Bob Newhart
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. -- Kristin Armstrong
A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one. -- Sandra Bullock
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. -- Valerie Jarrett
Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you. -- Chris Hardwick
Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed. -- Billy Graham
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music. -- Bonnie Raitt
Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. -- Jason Biggs
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. -- Gavin Newsom
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about. -- Hillary Clinton
I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore. -- Hoda Kotb
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along. -- Tom Chatfield
The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet. -- Daphne Oz
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. -- Shashi Tharoor
At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on? -- Parker Palmer
While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more. -- Seth Shostak
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. -- Douglas Rushkoff
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. -- Robert Morris
We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience. -- Jon Anderson
You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking. -- Daniel H. Pink
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star. -- Martin Rees
Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations. -- Herman Cain
Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting. -- Mahesh Bhupathi
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip. -- Adam Savage
Hamlet is a little daunting. -- Kyle MacLachlan
The political future for Democrats is daunting. -- Susan Davis
Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting. -- Pippa Middleton
I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid. -- Robin Williams
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. -- Roald Dahl
Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting. -- Joe Madureira
It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks. -- Chris Frantz
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley. -- Ben Stein
It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne -- Andrew Flintoff
Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect. -- Gareth Gates
I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges. -- Farrah Fawcett
It's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere. -- Michael Hyatt
When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits. -- Samantha Larson
Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting. -- Alan Cumming
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. -- Michael Beckwith
I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction. -- Sefi Atta
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. -- James Merrill
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools. -- Malorie Blackman
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. -- William Kirby
The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. -- Jodi Picoult
You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it. -- Matthew Macfadyen
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept. -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret]. -- Rowan Atkinson
The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going. -- Danny Huston
A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense. -- Ruth Simmons
Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about. -- Prince William
I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting. -- Bill Nighy
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it? -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie. -- Lesley Nicol
The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it. -- John S. Hall
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. -- Joseph Boyden
Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life. -- Brandon Sanderson
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism -- Khaled Hosseini
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine. -- Thomas Keating
Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth. -- Brooke Shields
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. -- David Nicholls
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman. -- Casey Wilson
What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth, -- Walter Smith
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing. -- Howard Gordon
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. -- Greg Boyle
I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know? -- Emily Browning
I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process. -- Megan Chance
It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime. -- Cary Fukunaga
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. -- Frances Mayes
The limitless opportunity of being able to do anything is daunting, but it's also the most rewarding. I'm having the time of my life. -- Kody Chamberlain
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations. -- Christian Bale
I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting. -- Sienna Miller
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization. -- Kingsley Amis
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. -- Richard Dawkins
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting. -- David K. Shipler
To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians. -- Tracey Thorn
In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved. -- Tony Blair
To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me. -- Lucy Punch
I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves. -- Craig Ferguson
Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose. -- Bill Gates
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation. -- Gloria Estefan
Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable. -- Bill Maris
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. -- Adam Pascal
Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now. -- David Cameron
Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things. -- Anna Quindlen
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. -- Wayne LaPierre
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that. -- Tom Waits
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective"?a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all. -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast. -- John Crowe Ransom
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it. -- Gary Numan
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world -- Gavin Newsom
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging. -- David Twohy
...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and packed and redistributed in the living world. -- Rosamund Lupton
The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying. -- Evgeny Morozov
I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. -- Lily Tomlin
If you can dress as a stormtrooper and go to a laundromat, or wear a sexy cheese gown in public, you might start to find "normal" social interactions a little less daunting. -- Misha Collins
Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there. -- Laura Marano
Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting. -- Deborah Reber
I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that. -- Carrie Brownstein
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery. -- Christopher
It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard. -- Michael Shannon
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel. -- Junot Diaz
Politicians have made up their own version of Islam to avoid having to deal with the reality of Islam because it's just too daunting, frightening, scary, whatever, and they don't want to deal with it. -- Rush Limbaugh
When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting. -- Stephen Lang
There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world. -- Sufe Bradshaw
Politicians have made up their own version of Islam to avoid having to deal with the reality of Islam because it's just too daunting, frightening, scary, whatever, and they don't want to deal with it. -- Rush Limbaugh

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