Pushing Quotes by Sarah Dessen, Garrett McNamara, Carrie Fisher, Chris Hughton, Jim Butcher, Martha Beck and many others.
Even if you couldn’t see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
My brothers said I was always the craziest, always pushing buttons.
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
There is no better feeling than knowing you are pushing for something.
I don’t know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, ‘lucky’ people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while ‘unlucky’ people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It’s almost like a football game – the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.
Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
People constantly face problems they’ve never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices.
I’m always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.
I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they’re always pushing forward from what they’ve done in the past, and they’re always just trying different styles.
Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.
I’ve made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that’s part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.
When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.
This is nothing. The last couple of batches of [Hillary Clinton’s] emails have revealed exactly nothing. Now, who is pushing this notion that there was a quid pro quo in the State Department?
I have always believed it is not enough just to wear the silver fern and I do not regret pushing myself to try to deliver my best possible performance.
If you’re not a real chameleon of an actor and if you’re not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.
I just want to be better. Of course, I’m not satisfied… I’m just pushing every day.
Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I’d prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
Music’s something that I really wasn’t pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
With ‘Decoded,’ the goal is to just keep pushing forward and challenging ourselves to tackle important subjects in creative and funny ways.
Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn’t help myself
I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.
It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.
If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.
We’re playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla.
Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla.
What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption.
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
I like pushing myself.
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can’t tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment – and older people are always advised to play it safe – yields a negative return when inflation is factored in.
Ten, 20, 30, winning, losing streak, whatever it is, we’ve just got to keep pushing, keep getting better each day.
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
If people respect us as artists, they know we’ll give them something different every time; they know we’re pushing ourselves.
My mum was always more pushing me towards the academic side; she wasn’t really interested in me having a professional football career.
Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no – because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast – those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.
Hi, Max,” she said, pushing her shades up onto her curls. “I hope your wearing sunscreen,” i said, “your gonna have hella wrinkles by the time your ten.” “Want some daiquiri?” she offered, pointing at a blender. “Is it traitor flavored?” I asked.
Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.
With each project I’m always pushing for clarity.
If you’re not getting close to capsize, you’re provably not pushing hard enough
You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.
AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn’t expected.
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You’re still tainted with that brush. I’m not called Jude Law, I have three names; I’m called ‘Hunk Jude Law’.
MMA in an individual sport, and you’re just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.
I knew that I was different. I gravitated more toward playing house, but the teachers were always pushing me toward playing the more competitive games with the boys. I spent so much time wondering, ‘What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I fit in?’
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.
How many times will we allow Justin Trudeau to get away with pushing strong, competent capable women out of politics when they are seeking to serve?
A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It’s living by example. It’s acceptance of people at their core, but it’s also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.
When you’re working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they’re pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction — toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.
I owe a lot to Darren Perry. I don’t think I’d be this far this early if it wasn’t for him pushing me to run an extra second or showing me a play on film and telling me when I see it, that’s the green light to go do it and don’t be afraid to take that next step and take chances. That’s what the game is about.
If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don’t think you have much to offer.
I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.
The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. I’d love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.
There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
People who know my stage act know it’s nothing but pushing boundaries.
Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.
I’m used to having a lot of criticism. It’s normal. It’s normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle — pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
I don’t want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.
Every ‘Star Wars’ film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.
As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that’s good.
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike
time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, ‘exogenous,’ as economists
would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times
the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.
time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, ‘exogenous,’ as economists
would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times
the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.
I’d like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I’ve been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we’ve had lots of opportunities to do it.
I don’t like people feeling like they’ve been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.
To feel the power of the engines is by far the most exciting thing. You feel this great force pushing you off the earth. Eight-and-a-half minutes later, you’re in outer space.
It’s nice to have more than one little one because then you’ll have – while one is pushing you in a wheelchair, the other one can open the doors for you.
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.
The Grizzlies organization did a very good job of always pushing us in directions and making us aware of things we might not have been aware of when we were young.
My relationship with my daughter is gonna affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life… Sometimes I’m walking with my daughter. I’m pushing her in the stroller, and sometimes I just pick her up and stare at her, and I realize, my only job in life is to keep her off the pole.
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don’t really like being in front of a camera – even though it is my job and I must act like I do.
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I’ve always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.
Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn’t pushing himself hard enough.
Putting something in a movie because it’s in the news doesn’t make it political to me. If you’re not going outside the same old, same old, if you’re not pushing the envelope, then you’re not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that’s my position. I’ve been pushing that one since before it was popular.
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.
You cannot get bogged down by failure – you have to keep pushing.
If you shut down 4chan, shut down 8chan, you’re just pushing it under the rug. Underground, it’s just gonna get worse.
The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I’ll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.
After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, ‘You know, we have a few suggestions.’ And I was like, ‘Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn’t have told me five minutes in?’
Confidence, to me, is just pushing yourself a little bit further than you think you can go, and you’ll always surprise yourself.
The Obama administration excelled at pushing its radical agenda through any means necessary. Since its gun-control agenda was not going anywhere, it decided to control ammunition, which would have had the same effect.
Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who’s very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you’re not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we’re not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.
For me, my career has never been about what I’ve done. But it’s been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.
Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day.
So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.
Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make excuses to stay stuck in drama. I choose not to step into a web of drama that I can’t get out of.
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
If you’re unwilling to leave someplace you’ve outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don’t stand still, leap forward.
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don’t abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
It’s like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
Whenever I’m near a body of water, I love to rent a kayak. It’s easy to use, and you not only get a cardio workout but also do a vigorous upper-body workout, pushing and pulling your paddle through the water.
I like Alexander McQueen’s work a lot: he’s always pushing boundaries, and he’s rough around the edges.
So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.
I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It’s a good thing but a bad thing. It’s good because your body is quick to adapt, but it’s a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can’t recover as well.
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don’t do that, it doesn’t matter what portfolio of issue you’re pushing, nothing is going to get done.
My whole life, I’ve wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.
Strength training is a fantastic microcosm for a man’s life: pushing yourself through discomfort, every single day, is the only way to make measurable progress. It’s one of the few ways to grow as a man.
If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn’t trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn’t Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn’t shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.
To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.
As long as you’re pushing men to stay at work, you’re pushing women to stay home.
I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.
I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly. On set I was like, ‘Give me some stunts! Give me whatever you want. Throw it at me. I want to do it all.’
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
One finds limits by pushing them.
I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy – he called it a cosmological constant – could play this role, pushing things away.
Savio Vega kept pushing me, pushing me, as he was teaching me, too, how to be a heel and things. And how to… ‘Let’s just try this tonight: just, we’ll lock up, you’ll go behind me, rub up and down my chest.’
I don’t know whose sensibility I’m responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they’ve inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it’s difficult.
The thrill of pushing limits and breaking the rules is in our blood. But we New Yorkers have a secret that we don’t want the rest of the world knowing… We love our dogs.
After you have a big game, you can’t just say, ‘That’s it, I’ve arrived,’ by any means. I’m always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that’s important.
One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is – the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn’t gonna last.
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney worked at the State Department during the presidency of George W. Bush. While in Congress, Cheney has focused on pushing a Bush-era foreign policy, particularly in support of continuing the Afghanistan and Iraq wars indefinitely.
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let’s focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it’s unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.
The prejudice is against men and women – assuming men stay at work. That’s the reason why we don’t have enough women in the halls of power – the prejudice is pushing women to go home.
When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They’d put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn’t accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.
I don’t think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don’t think the facts would substantiate that argument.
There’s something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That’s the magic of painting.
I like pushing the envelope. But I don’t like to do it just for the sake of doing it.
You cannot get complacent because there’s someone out there working harder than you. So you got to keep pushing yourself to be an elite player.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
I just want to keep pushing things and growing, and we’ll see what happens.
We are living in a globalised world and most of us are worried stiff about powerful interest groups steadily pushing India towards obscurantist and fundamentalist beliefs and regressive economic policies.
I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries’ pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
You can be intuitive when you’ve got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
It was my first day at work – and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people… soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.
I’ve had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe what you did for me – thank you. I love you so much.’
All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It’s terribly hard on the kids. It’s also hard on the teachers. And I think it’s totally useless.
I’m always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?” barked Uncle Vernon. “Well…” said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. “Yes, I’d have to say you do, Dursley.
I’m only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that’s small, so I wasn’t getting signed, but I kept on pushing.
I’ve always enjoyed getting forward, pushing up-field to help us in our attacks, but I think you can still do that from a central position, too. You don’t have to sit deep all the time.
Feminism is teaching. I’ve gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I’ve met and worked with.
Technology and the pace of change in media is pushing us into an uncomfortable area The media have perhaps become more cavalier towards pushing confidential information.
It’s flabbergasting. I can understand if you have your legs spread and you’re pushing yourself into the camera – that’s sexually erotic. But the sensual contours in the male or female shape? Come on, guys, relax.
There’s a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it’s all about tension. It’s about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.
I think that there’s absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that’s just terrifying, it’s really terrifying.
Everybody listens to Bob Marley. It gives you an inner feeling to keep pushing on. It’s an education on life. He helps me out every day. It gives me a deep-down feeling.
When you think you’ve made it, you need to keep pushing because the person next to you or your competitor is also getting better, and you need to be able to stay ahead.
The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.
NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn’t go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.
Inertia is depression’s best friend. There’s always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.
In this world, some things happen that we can’t completely understand. That’s OK; we don’t have to understand it. All we have to do is understand our self, believe in our self and keep trying and keep pushing forward.
I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
If you’re constantly just trying to go in this win-loss cycle that MLB is pushing, you are creating bandwagon fans, and that’s not the type of fans you want to create.
Taserface is loud. Taserface is the defensive lineman on your high school football team. He’s a very loud individual who enjoys pushing people around.
Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.
You gotta keep on pushing the envelope and pushing the door until you get to where you’re trying to go. You’re the person that’s gotta make that happen. No matter what team’s behind you, if you don’t put the effort behind it, it’s not gonna work.
I have had some dark times, it was a frustrating 2019. I was pushing for the Terence Crawford fight but, through no fault of my own, I did not get any of the big fights I wanted.
The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth is that I’m the one dragging them along on this crazy ride. They’d much rather have a normal life, but it doesn’t look like that’s in the cards.
If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.
What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It’s about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It’s about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it’s about being creative.
If you’re not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you’re not really doing your job.
„Ma’am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could’ve sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.
I’d say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit – and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.
The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses’ cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.
I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.
There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.
There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants – anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.
The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.
Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
Simon shook his head.”Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles because it amuses you?” “That and I’m not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.Maryse usually cooks or we order in food.”said Jace
(Ash used his powers to lift Zarek from the floor and pin him roughly against the ceiling.) Stop pushing your luck, boy. I’ve had it with you. (Acheron) Have you ever thought of hiring yourself out to Disneyland? People would pay a fortune for this ride. (Zarek)
People are used to seeing me in make-up and blow-dried hair but after a point I felt like pushing myself. As an actor, I try to inhabit the character. It is the way to tell people about your skills through your looks.
We weren’t pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.
When we were growing up, some of those Amblin films, those Spielberg movies, led to the creation of the PG-13 rating because he was pushing it so dark and he upset a lot of parents. I liked that, though.
I have to constantly keep pushing myself.
There are no pat answers – we’re pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don’t always apply.
When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn’t fun. I didn’t love working in a supermarket; it wasn’t for me. It is for some people, and that’s totally cool.
When I was young, there were bars called the ‘Hungry Hole,’ and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.
Fast track is about pushing through the TPP, TTIP and future trade agreements that would massively increase the power of big international corporations and affect the daily lives of Americans.
Striving for equality, celebrating our diversity, pushing for minority representation, and being proud of what makes us unique is what California is all about. But let us never allow our differences to blind us to the common humanity we all share.
Onstage, I don’t feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they’re pushing me to do something new that feels good.
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and then you see it pushing its way up. So in my life if another book wants to be born it’s not for me to choose.
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.
we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else’s problem.
We are redefining what leadership looks like and pushing for every single person to be part of that conversation.
Sometimes you can win by persevering, pushing and pressuring your competition.
Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
Rap is the only interesting music left – it’s the only genre that’s still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
Know who you are and stay true to it. Have a point of view, keep your head down when noise tries to drown out your inner voice, and whatever you do, keep pushing.
We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.
They’re pushing me to do Howard. Howard’s a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!
A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.
As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.
I’ve faced adversity countless, countless times throughout my life. One thing I’ve always preached is keep pushing.
It’s always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it’s really about the person that’s pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing – all the time. And that’s how this game is played. And I’ll play it till I can’t play it anymore.
I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.
Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it’s because I’m pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I’m just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
Any writer who believes in the ‘lucky creative accident’ in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it’s not, then it’s not doing anything important enough to spend my time.
I’m not sure if I’m most happy when I’m comfortable and content or when I’m pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.
Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart
Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you’re on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you’re going to wind up where you started from.
I’m pushing – on a bipartisan basis, actually – to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
I’m really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.
I love pushing myself and I think being in a comfort zone perennially can restrict your growth.
Starz is a network that’s going for the content that’s extremely honest and pushing the envelope and is provocative.
I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.
When you’re 17 and you have an idea, people don’t really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry’s way of thinking.
Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself… Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.
Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.
I’m always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it’s in my spirit.
Don’t turn around. Don’t look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.
So I went to the Doctor’s yesterday. He said, “What appears to be the problem?” I said, “I keep having this dream, night after night, beautiful girls rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away.” He said, “How can I help?” I said: “Break my arms.”
When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering whos performing better, you take your eye off the ball.
I like challenges. I like pushing my body.
The INVEST in America Act will make critical, long over-due investments in tribal infrastructure – something I’ve been pushing for since I first began serving on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he’s really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.
Anytime you’re pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it’s easy to go from hero to zero in a second.
Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.
The immigration policies that Donald Trump and the Republicans are pushing are downright hateful and must be stopped.
If you think you’ve already made it, that’s when you can fall short and go backwards. I’m constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.
Pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable – to me, that’s something I’m definitely interested in and want to pursue.
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn’t to be rejected. My purpose isn’t to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.
We’re constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It’s an insight into things that you don’t normally see.
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it’s fair to say, incontestable. And it’s doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.
As long as bands are still out there slaving away in the garage and putting out their own records and just pushing the envelope for how songs should be written or how they should be played, punk will never die.
Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.
What drives me is to still feel creative and like I’m pushing myself as an artist.
This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that’s what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.
I’m training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.
Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.
It’s not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It’s a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
Keeping pushing, Andrei, and you and I are going to play a game. (Esperetta) And what game is that, Princess? (Andrei) Find the Ball in My Hand. (Esperetta) I don’t see a ball, Princess. (Andrei) Oh, you will, just as soon as I snap it off your body. (Esperetta)
You want to push a guy up against a cage, there’s nothing like pushing a car.
You can’t always be pushing people away. Someday nobody’ll come back.
Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
When I’m stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I’m eating a sandwich, it’s an unsettled sandwich. If I’m in the shower, it’s an incorrect shower. It’s profoundly uncomfortable. But it’s what keeps me pushing.
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.
It’s nice to be a part of a show I was passionate about and that’s pushing the culture forward. I feel ‘Black Lightning’ is doing that for sure.
Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to – more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.
A fantastic actor in a scene that’s just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks – correct music, slowly pushing in – that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I’ve always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.
When we think about lung cancer, the biggest environmental factor is without doubt smoking. Um, that would make a huge impact and has made a huge impact on the incidence of lung cancer. We have to keep pushing that and making it clear to everybody why smoking is so dangerous.
It became apparent to me near the end of the album cycle for ‘House Of Gold & Bones’ that it had basically run its course. But the band kept pushing for more dates, and I was just, like, ‘It’s time to stop!’
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
I don’t believe in pushing myself in this industry where people do anything to gain what they want.
I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody’s jersey. I’m just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I’m not dirty.
Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They’re either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there’s something about them that comes from Superman.
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you’ve written is any good, or anything.
I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it’s not because of my brushing skills. It’s from Crest Whitestrips, and that’s the honest truth. I don’t believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.
Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.
Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.
There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That’s when I retire. But so far, I’ve continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.
There’s real beauty in pushing yourself to expose the real you in more ways.
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father’s face, he’s pushing back. He’s sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture – or what there is of it – pushing by force their system on others.
I’m not the same player I was in League One. I am proud of what I achieved because it was all through hard work, good managers and team-mates pushing me.
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal – the ocean.
Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.
I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It’s fun and it’s unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that’s true, and that’s a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
Yoga is living as awareness itself – with nothing pulling or pushing you.
I think we’ve been pushing for a lot of years and I do feel like women’s lib was talked about a lot in the 70s and I certainly always felt that, you know, as a woman, I could do whatever the heck I wanted.
I’m constantly pushing myself to evolve and be a better person and the best that I can be and that pushes me in my fighting career and personal life.
Because I’ve worked with Netflix from the beginning, and that’s my first job, I only want to work with creators, producers, and networks that are pushing the limit and putting people on the screen that haven’t had their stories told yet.
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels’ tracks behind me in the snow.
I’m not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!
Social issues is something I’ve been a part of changing and pushing for. It’s embedded and ingrained in my soul. It’s not something that personally I try to plan. It just comes in the heat of the moment.
And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that’s been pushing me forward.
The final phone call that said we’re going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We’ve overcome the impossible and we’re still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
My son understands a lot and he’s pushing me really hard. He always tells me ‘you need to win, you need to be good.’ He’s happy to see that his father is racing and I think he understands step by step more about Formula One and he really likes it.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.
Is that a yes?” he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders and searching my face intently. “Please let it be yes,” he said with a gravelly edge. “Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you, even if that’s all it is. Let me keep you safe.
I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.
We think the government should be pushing for more encryption. That it’s a great thing. You know, it’s like the sun and the air and the water.
I remember taking my brother’s car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.
I don’t care if a flight attendant is fat as long as she doesn’t sneak back to the galley for a gossip when she should be pushing down the food trolley. I get annoyed when the food trays are slapped down on my seat by bored and disinterested men and women. I look for warmth and comfort, not cold efficiency.
I would never encourage my children to be athletes – first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
I doubt I’ll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.
It’s easy to be a prodigy. It’s really hard to keep pushing in new directions.
I believe if you keep pushing and keep believing, you get your rewards.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you’re gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I’m a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.
There’s no longevity on YouTube. You have to keep pushing boundaries.
Over the years, I have pushed myself mentally and I have pushed myself physically. A lot of people say, ‘John Havlicek never gets tired.’ Well, I get tired. It’s just a matter of pushing myself. I say to myself, ‘He’s as tired as I am; who’s going to win this mental battle?’ It’s just a matter of mental toughness.
My daughter is 12 weeks old and I’ve been in a training camp for 10 weeks. So I haven’t held her properly and been out pushing the pram, doing the little things. But when I’m slugging it out and things are getting tough I just think, ‘everything is for the kids.’
When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.
Everybody enjoys each other’s success. We are always pushing each other to get better on the field and off the field, helping each other out in the nets or in the gym. That’s the most important thing.
As an actor and as a performer, I’ve felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways… there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.
We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.
The reason I don’t retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It’s about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.
The Internet is pushing us – in good ways and in bad – to realize that the official version of events shouldn’t always be trusted or accepted without question.
Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us – but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it… if we just take a look at it.
Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn’t break.
I see myself as a person who is pushing back and fighting against oppression in all its forms, centering racial and economic injustice very explicitly.
I always expected to be working construction with my family, so every day I get to travel the world and have fun with my friends is a bonus. I really enjoy pushing myself and so does my wife.
If you’re playing within your capability, what’s the point? If you’re not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you’re not really doing your job.
I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we’re pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.
Republicans are so far out to the right, it’s pushing people into the Democratic Party.
The real reason Democrats are pushing for universal mail-in balloting has nothing to do with the global pandemic which originated in China; they simply believe it will help them win elections.
Capitalism doesn’t function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It’s like pushing a giant monster under water that’s gasping for air. It goes nuts.
I think that is one of the main goals of pushing forward in machine learning: having computers provide the wisdom that a human companion would be able to provide in offering advice, looking up more information when necessary and those kinds of things.
I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to keep pushing in that direction.
Historically, Vince McMahon’s company has always been where the Hulk Hogans get the push and the Paul Orndorffs and Jake Roberts does the pushing.
You have to keep pushing yourself and reinventing yourself.
Hopefully with each thing that you do you’re learning something, you’re growing, and you’re pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you’d be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn’t feel like ‘Oh, wow. I feel like I’m doing something a little different this time.
We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.
InMobi is passionate about pushing the limits of business and mobile technology.
When I’m lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I’ll find the light to light my way And when I’m scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I’m down you’re there Pushing me to the top You’re always there, giving me all you’ve got
If you train with fast athletes, it keeps you pushing. I know that good preparation is more important than everything else.
I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don’t want to make.
I just like to keep pushing myself and the sport.
Snowboarding is about having fun, pushing one another creatively, and not putting anyone down along the way.
Growing up in the ’70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the ’70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.
You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.
Everything I’d taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow – you’re just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you’re fast, heavy and loud but you’re hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that’s when it gets hard.
I love Red Bull, they support everything that I do. They always support music and they’re always pushing music.
That’s the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.
Well, truth be told it was the hope on the last one, it’s always the hope. It’s just you don’t just wasn’t to do it- everything we do is, for a lack of a more crass term, everything we do is pushing against the conveyer belt.
I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people’s imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.
I don’t think I’m generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
As for kids who are struggling personally, ignore the bullies! Who cares what they think? A lot of the time, they’re not thinking, so you shouldn’t take their words to heart. Ignore, ignore, ignore, and keep pushing forward.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.
Although we often assume that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. By pushing myself to act happier, I make myself feel happier.
But clearly, this is what this is about. It’s about pushing the security bubble out. It’s about rooting out every last guy, so that there’s not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.
So much of the music I love is polarizing. People might either hate it or love it, but they remember it because it was different. That means it was pushing buttons and not just following trends.
You’ve just got to stay grounded, keep your head down, keep pushing and, when someone does call and wants you, be ready for your opportunity.
Voters are smart. They know the difference between a Democratic Party that wants their vote and a Democratic Party that believes in making their life better. They’ll forgive you for pushing a policy they don’t like as long as they believe you’re doing it because you genuinely believe it’s what’s best for the country.
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.
Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.
The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I look at everything I’ve done critically – but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good – in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.
As an athlete, you learn to keep pushing through the pain until the pain eventually becomes unbearable. Even then, you are told to continue.
I don’t want to be satisfied with where I’m at or happy about what I’ve done. I want to keep pushing it.
I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I’m a product of Wonder Woman comic books
If you have the right kind of guys who are pushing each other and at the same time supporting each other, it’s pretty cool.
There’s a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.
The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie’s bookshop, Gordon–Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already–lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player’s Weights open and shut with his thumb.
Whenever I am not traveling during the winter, I am pushing hard in the gym. Even when I am traveling, I try to fit a workout in at the hotel. And if the hotel doesn’t have a gym? You can get a good workout in your room with an exercise band and some imagination.
While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of the food industry involves much more.
It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).
I love that because that’s what I’m supposed to be doing – whether it’s accepted b everybody or not. I’m supposed to be pushing that envelope and trying new things. And people are supposed to say, Hov, you might have went too far.
Having a head coach pushing you is definitely a plus.
A lot of credit to my teammates and my coaches for pushing me and helping me.
It’s something you have to find from within. You have to keep pushing yourself from within. It’s not about what other people think and what other people say. It’s about what you want to accomplish and do you want to go out there and be prepared to beat everyone you play or face.
When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, ‘I can’t stand this’. Then I’d meet somebody in a bar saying what wonderful people the Palestinians are and what mamzers the Jews are, and I’d think, ‘Hang on’. It should be hard to make up your mind on any serious subject.
Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It’s something that’s not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you’re always pushing people and you’re pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.
I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
I’m a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
I’m a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.
That was one thing about my life and everything I’ve done really, it’s like I’ve been on a diving board scared out of my life and someone just keeps pushing me!
I still run into a lot of people from Memphis, all around the NBA. I feel like they’re with me every game. I feel their love, their support, their pushing. I know they still cheer for me. They let me know they cheer for me. And there’s a part of them with me in every game I play.
I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn’t say it’s more important than action. You can’t really separate the two.
If you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages – not to mention the myth of Icarus – predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
I’m never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you’re always learning. That’s what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.
Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient.
We’re all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain.
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
I’m really proud of the roles that I’ve played and pushing myself to be brave enough to play them.
we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children – even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another….we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.
One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he’d do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling.
Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.
I wasn’t happier for anyone more than Vic Fangio. He deserved to be a head coach, in my opinion. I was really pulling for him and pushing him whenever I got a chance.
There’s something in my voice tonally that’s like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be known as having a naturalistic boy tone without pushing it.
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby’s boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn’t run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.
With the national team, you never know how long you’ve got, so you always have to be pushing and making the most of it.
I look forward to pushing the boundaries of my craft and taking new chances.
Harry Kane shows every season his importance. You can’t say anything else but the fact that he’s such an important player, a captain, a leader and a player who is pushing all the time, pushing the team to get higher.
I like Alexander McQueen’s work a lot: he’s always pushing boundaries, and he’s rough around the edges.
He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top.
When there’s somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody’s right next to me and they’re pushing and we’re both tired, we’re both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.
When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn’t really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.
Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It’s facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don’t get failures, you’re not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn’t know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.
I’m the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it’s the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We’re just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
Social Security’s future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
Every day, I’m working hard to improve my craft as an artist, my connection with the best fans, and keep pushing my work ethic. All those things make me happy.
Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was disconnected from the living but could bring the dead back to life being a pie maker felt like I got the symbolism of food as life.
You see God’s hands in so many situations. Then someone will point to all the bad things that are going on. Well, it’s because we don’t want God in our society. We are pushing God farther and farther away. And we can now see those consequences in our society.
I’m always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that’s what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.
You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you’re going to stay up on the ledge you’ve made for yourself.
The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.
I think, as a director, it’s always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
What I have in me… it’s not hard, and it’s not cold, and it’s not fierce ambition, that’s not what it is. It’s a drive [for success], but it’s not a drive…it’s being driven, it’s something I have no control over. It’s something pushing me, I’m not pushing myself.
I didn’t care what people thought of me, that I was getting better, pushing myself to get better. Those are the things I concentrate on. I don’t concentrate on what everyone else was saying.
I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots – the bottom of the bottom – and I have to rationalize it, … Am I pushing out the homeless?
It’s about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I’m pushing, and I’m a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.
I’m making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I’m screwing women I have no business screwing. I’m pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It’s like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I’m sinking fast.
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified – I didn’t know if I could be funny.
I love my dad. He’s the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn’t been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
It’s better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We’re supposed to get another read on it soon.
I was raised on GG Allen, Divine, Elvira and Marilyn Manson. I was always more interested in those button pushing, transgressive artists and they made a lot of good money doing it.
I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
I’ve lost so many fights and I’ve won many but you have to keep pushing.
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
A lot of people that make films say, ‘We need this kind of character. Who’s done it before? Get them to do it again.’ That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It’s kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.
We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.
We cannot give our students all that they expect, whether by way of the quality of their schooling or by way of the jobs that they were hoping to get. Student frustration is a worldwide phenomenon, pushing our societies into adjusting faster than they are used to.
I’m a fan of hip-hop as well. I like everybody who keeps the game on their toes and keep it pushing.
Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just – I think it’s my job as an artist to be out there pushing people’s buttons and making them question everything.
I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot, but for me, it’s about pushing to the point where I can be Mark Walhberg, Ryan Murphy, or Shonda Rhimes. I want to be at that table in terms of bringing new voices in.
Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that’s what’s fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.
So let me tell you this, when it comes to…trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don’t get mad at them: it’s not because they’re stupid. It’s because they’re blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won’t make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them.
I’m not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I’m always pushing forward.
As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.
Most of the people I know in show business don’t need anybody pushing them at all. They’re extremely aggressive.
I don’t like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
I wasn’t trying to be rich or famous; I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won’t let me sleep that makes me restless and makes me keep pushing. I was trying to discover who I was.
Each time I’m training and sparring, I’m always pushing myself to submit my training partners.
Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?
There’s going to be bumps along the way, in any walk of life, not just as a professional footballer with injuries. You’ve got to be resilient with it and keep pushing through. It’ll make you stronger as well.
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.
I’m really anxious not to repeat what I’ve done before, to keep pushing and learning.
If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.
In my store, I don’t do anything political. There are no signs up, and I’m not pushing anyone.
It’s important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I’m interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life.
I always said to myself when I walked into the arena ‘today they’re going to know how good I am’ and that was the attitude I carried with me every single time and just felt like at the end, you can’t hold talent down. If you have it, eventually it’s going to shine through and you just have to keep pushing.
By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could – like running the track after a two-hour practice – you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
I don’t draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.
If you keep pushing paint when you’re tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I’ll stop and work on something quite different.
Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.
We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.
I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.
Ever since his inauguration, President Trump’s political opponents have been pushing to impeach him. They just hadn’t found the right excuse. In other words, they knew where they wanted to end up but they just hadn’t found the right vehicle to drive them down the road.
I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do… working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.
Corner is probably different from safeties and linebackers, but I think the important part is coming out each and every day competing, not only trying to get yourself better but also for us on defense pushing the offense as much as we possibly can so we can just improve totally as a team.
Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.
I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself… I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
That’s all I’m programmed for: to keep pushing and to try to make the most of my career and my life, to take care of my family.
We never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.
I’m always in the elements, it seems like it’s pouring rain on me a lot and there’s crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don’t have to come up with too much of it. I’m always amazed.
I don’t want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I’m pushing them out.
Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not step forward and greet it.
Human beings thrive on imagination and pushing boundaries and limitations. Imposing limits when we don’t actually have any true idea of what’s possible is like imposing a steel trap over the mind.
Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn’t. I didn’t find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.
I’m just going to keep pushing and try and be the best of version that I can be of me.
I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork…Determination…I gotta keep pushing myself.
..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope…with all of their might.
I get off on pushing people’s buttons sometimes.
My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ like, ‘Read these books.’ And it was like, man, I’m learning stuff that I just can’t get anywhere else.
Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie’s Coltrane to speak in Turkish.
Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona
On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win—grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing. Oh…and the players were all baboons.
I don’t think anyone’s pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we’re losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.
I kept trying, proposing, pushing… If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
Just pushing myself for more rounds at a higher pace in training. Your focus should be grounded in what you do, and that’s fighting. I’m getting my cardio that way.
The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
No matter how tough you are or how much willpower or determination you have, if there’s something wrong with your body, it’s going to shut down and stop. It’s good to have those qualities, but it’s important to know what you’re pushing against.
He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
We shouldn’t be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.
I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
‘Blackheart’ is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.
I’m pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
It’s good to keep working hard, pushing yourself, and, by scoring goals, you get the reward.
I like to play physical, and I’m a big guy, and I think sometimes – maybe sometimes I am pushing somebody, and I don’t realize how hard I’m pushing them. And then they do it back, and it’s kind of like, ‘Jeez!’
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it’s OutKast. There’s a strangeness about it because it’s catchy, but it’s not just pop for the sake of pop. They’re pushing the envelope.
I’m not getting penalised for pushing, I’m penalised for going over the limit of what’s legal and what’s within the rules.
If I had to live on record sales, I’d be pushing up the daisies.
As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.
Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.
The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.
I’m around a world-class staff that is pushing me to the limit while making sure I don’t break myself, which is something I’ve had a problem with.
I’m in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.
I have had a lot of fun pushing the boundaries on my balloon and kitesurf adventures, breaking some world records in the process, and I think this attitude of having fun whilst working hard is one that lends itself very well to successful entrepreneurship.
When I started with the national team, it was made very clear I was going to be the backup to Christie Rampone and Rachel Buehler. So for the first few years, it was just me training my heart out and pushing those centerbacks to be the best they could be.
I’ve never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I’m always pushing for new ideas, whether it’s in business or philanthropy.
I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don’t have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don’t get the flashback that you get onstage.
Every film has its ups and downs. Each time it seems like pushing a boat over a mountain. I worked on ‘The Lovely Bones’ for five years before my involvement fell apart.
‘The Sound Of Silence’ taught us that we shouldn’t be afraid of pushing the boundaries.
Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That’s what people see that’s what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn’t easy.
One of the most refreshing changes I’ve seen in recent years is the blending of genres – the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories.
I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I’m always game for that.
I just need to do something new…. I’ve got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I’m ready to start pushing some buttons.
I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.
The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.
Success is a moving target. I don’t think we ever achieve “it”, at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.
Pushing forty? She’s hanging on for dear life.
Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that’s the time to really step in.
life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived … A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I’ve met.
And that’s what everyone at Apple is focused on – pushing forward and creating the future.
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
Maybe it’s part of being an athlete, but I feel like we’re really good, especially in swimming, about just pushing things down and pushing ahead.
Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to… What else? Buy votes.
When you – when you – and this is still going on today – are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.
I’m not even born yet. I’m still trying. I’m still pushing. I don’t ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.
Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz
Whenever people see me on screen, I want them to feel that I am making an effort and pushing the envelope.
It’s funny, this thing about happiness. It’s a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it’s pushing your luck to define how happy you are.
Cigars should be like onions,” she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. “Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.
I come from zero and I’ve had to push myself up to where I am today. I’m not going to give up and I’m going to keep pushing.
I like pushing myself, and usually if I’m not good at something I just won’t do it because I’m a perfectionist.
There are moments of high mood, there are moments of low mood, there are moments of injury, there are moments of strength, there are moments of progress, there are moments of stagnation. All we can do is keep on pushing.
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you’re gonna come up with something different, or you’ll find songs that are different.
I can’t tell you who to vote for, because you have to do your homework to see who you connect with and see what they’re pushing.
I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.
If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.
I want to inspire people and show people no matter what happens, no matter how much you get knocked down, you can pick yourself up. Just keep pushing forward, keep being positive.
Rahman sir keeps pushing himself. He keeps trying new things, whether it is his craft, music or sound… he is always learning. He looks for opportunities to learn, even from children.
Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.
And then you’re going to have a president whose business empire depends on sort of delivering certain policies. For example, one thing that was quoted in the Newsweek report – that his [Donald Trump] pushing policies of nuclear arms for South Korea would actually improve his business network.
I guess I’m interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
We only get better by pushing ourselves.
Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin’s popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines; pressuring nearby nations to join various defense and customs pacts dominated by Russia; and pushing back on the U.S. wherever convenient.
I just don’t care what people have to say. I keep pushing toward what I want. It’s just how I am. I don’t know where I got it from.
Failure isn’t something to be embarrassed about; it’s just proof that you’re pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
Along the way, I learned a lot about being told I didn’t have the right skills for the jobs I wanted and how to overcome the setbacks and keep pushing forward. This is why I’ve become an Ambassador for LifeSkills, a programme created by Barclays to help one million young people get the skills they need for work.
Revenue is not where the focus of the company is at. We are focused on pushing out cool products like our analytics.
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
I’ve got my foot in ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I’m really pushing myself to do these new projects. It’s scary as hell, but it’s fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.
It wasn’t until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he’s right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.
Pushing the envelope’ sort of implies that you’re inside the envelope with everyone else, and you’re trying to find the edges on the outsides.
There is a dualism inherent in democracy–opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.
When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I’m not going to grind back.
I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don’t want to settle on a sound.
Delphine Lucielle’s paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it’s really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small.
We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.
I am changing the culture in this Pakistan environment and I am not interested in players doing just the bare minimum. I want players winning us games of cricket and pushing themselves to be the best they can be.
I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.
I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.
There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a special civilisation with a special culture. Putin is pushing that now.
We are not in a situation where the minorities are demanding something and the majorities are pushing back saying ‘We don’t want it.’
Risk is the universe’s way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.
Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn’t want the same to happen in the Antarctic.
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you’re anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of ‘pushing paint,’ breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.
All winners are edgy. Guys that are pushing themselves are edgy. It’s the old saying we have in Kentucky: I’d rather have a guy I have to say whoa to, than giddyup.
My generation grew up in the heyday of the ’90s, with the Internet boom and the birth of overnight millionaires. But our politicians seem to be pushing personal agendas over the idea of making the world a better place for their children.
The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.
We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.
Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.
I havent been overweight, just a well-built North Indian body type but while no one was telling me to lose weight, I was constantly pushing myself hard to be thinner.
I know I’m not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn’t interest me. I’m interested in being provocative and pushing people’s buttons.
China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but ‘woke’ activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.
If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
In many cities, it’s become popular to hate ‘gentrifiers,’ rich people who move in and drive up housing prices – pushing everyone else out.
You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.
Personally, I feel like there should be some sort of cap on the quads, but we should still be pushing it to a certain number.
If there’s somebody pushing you, you’re going to be more energized.
I think magic, whether I’m holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It’s practice, it’s training, and it’s – It’s practice, it’s training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.
I had had some successes in the ’90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn’t meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.
When I was living in California, I would ride my bike and see homeless people pushing their grocery carts with all their belongings, and it really upset me. I always said if I had a bigger soapbox, I would do something. And I thought the best way was to cook food – I’m Italian.
I am honoured to be a part of H&M’s designer collaborations. The work with their team is an exciting, fun process. They are very open to pushing boundaries and to set a platform for creativity. This will be a great way for a wider audience to experience elements of the Alexander Wang brand and lifestyle.
One casting director told me, ‘You’re the next Leonardo DiCaprio,’ and when I heard that, I said, ‘Let’s talk about how I don’t want anything to do with being like Leo.’ He’s an amazing actor, but the films we’re pushing to do are different. I’m going my own way–in a big way.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
That’s humour – doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.
I’m still getting used to changing earrings – It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren’t there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.
I have seen women literally run into the abortion facility because someone was yelling Bible verses at them or pushing a graphic image in their faces.
My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They’re down and dirty, real and more fun.
I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.
If I’m tired one day, then I’ll take the day off instead of pushing through it, because then that’s when you hurt yourself.
My wife is been extremely supportive and when doubt creeps in, she’s there pushing me along. She’s helped me move up here, get all of my furniture and brought all my groceries. That’s what marriage is about: supporting each other and helping each other reach our fullest potential.
I think if you’re everyone’s cup of tea, that probably means you’re a little bit boring, or you’re not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it’s dangerous and scary: where you’re not comfortable.
If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn’t help; best to let it lie there.
It’s a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.
Breast-feeding was so stressful for me. I kept on clenching and pushing my tongue against the bottom teeth, so they started to move toward an underbite.
There are no pat answers – we’re pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don’t always apply.
My favorite models are always going to be the people who are pushing the boundary and challenging what it is to be a model.
There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.
I don’t think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that’s always pushing you to think about your next thing.
With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.
Career politicians in D.C. have shirked their responsibility to us for decades. At every turn, they’ve kicked the can down the road, pushing the burdens of our problems and our debts onto our children and grandchildren.
Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.
In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were laid. I think if it weren’t for ‘The Purge,’ ‘Get Out’ wouldn’t resonate as a mainstream movie. You push on the taste of the audience, in a way, get them used to something, and then you keep pushing on it.
When you can produce measurable, replicable results, it builds confidence and motivates you to keep pushing forward.
I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.
Obviously I’d love to work with any of these great directors because every time I’ve worked with them I’ve gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
Somebody we never talk about is Stephanie McMahon. She is such a huge power influence in our company. She is always pushing us to go the limit, and she doesn’t take much credit for what she’s done.
If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there’s always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along.
I’m blessed to have a supportive family and friends, who keep pushing me to never give up dancing whatever happens.
If you’re not creating waves, then you’re not pushing enough.
Sometimes, when Bridget was in a particularly melodious mood, Sophie thought about stalking downstairs and pushing her into the oven like the with in ‘Hansel and Gretel.
I keep pushing my limits, especially since I started training in full equipment.
Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He’s a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head
I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you’re pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it’s a very, very dangerous thing to do.
I don’t care how many championships you’ve won or how many records you’ve broken – if you’ve had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport’s movement, then I think that’s pretty darn good.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
What is going on with you?” she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. “What’s up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.
Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.
The concept of getting out of my routine, mixing it up, and pushing myself to live the grittiest life is something I try to incorporate every day.
I want my health to be perfect when I’m pushing the edge.
That’s what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
Never despair, keep pushing on!
Female performers have been doing this for years – pushing the envelope about sexuality – and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.
Kids of this day and age know you don’t necessarily have to specialize in one sport no matter how much society and your coaches are pushing you towards that.
We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don’t need stress to get there.
I think we’ll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.
A lot of people will say they strive and drive to be the best in the industry and I get that, but for me, I think I’m just pushing to be the best version of myself that I can be.
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
You’ve got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you’re going to hear ‘no’ a lot more than you hear ‘yes.’
The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details…real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That’s real life.
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it’s to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It’s there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter.
The parts of physics that are exact are the parts of physics that are exact. The parts that are inexact are vastly greater. Sensible scientists don’t waste their time pushing against doors that endlessly will not give. They are opportunistic and go where they can, but there are pitfalls in that.
And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.
I’ve surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn’t really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience.
It’s writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that’s broader than just figuring out a song. You’re also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements.
A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.
You can’t try to make something crazy happen when nothing is there. You’ve just got to keep pushing.
Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.
U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.
I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, “I’m like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They’re going to be okay.”
I’m definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I’m open to something if it comes up.
At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.
I was only sitting here in my white study
with the awful black words pushing me around.
with the awful black words pushing me around.
It’s hard to always listen to your dad when you get older. You want to move on, but he has the knowledge. I think he did just the right amount of pushing me but also letting me do my thing, and just making sure that I always enjoyed the game, and I’m not feeling pressured.
The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the Soviet nuclear arsenal. I tend to think that more than anything else, that will come back to haunt us.
I’m pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can’t work.
The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.
The camera’s dumb, it don’t [sic] care who’s pushing the button. It doesn’t know.
I like pushing boundaries.
Was it all inevitable, John?” Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes,” I said. “I think it was. Certainly, it’s written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning’s hardly started.
If you come into a season without goals, you’re just going through practice and it doesn’t mean anything to you. But if you set goals, you’re pushing yourself.
Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure a second boat which again turns into a melting floe under your feet. All the stepping stones that you conjure disappear under the water behind you.
I’d always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.
If you watch the award shows, you’ll see variations of the hammer pants. It’s always cool to see that and then every now and then, you’ll see an artist who’s pushing the envelope and it may not be all the way there but you can see where it’s coming from. I’m always appreciative of seeing my influence.
We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies.
It’s surprising that readers don’t see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.
I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.
I think its nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work youve done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.
The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I’m sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.
Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It’s like we’re all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we’re all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.
I could never repay my parents for always pushing me and believing in me as much as they did.
