Pushing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
-- Aaliyah -
Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.
-- Abbi Glines -
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
-- Abel Ferrara -
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.
-- Alexa Vega -
As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.
-- Alexander Gustafsson -
It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.
-- Amy Purdy -
We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.
-- Andrew Bernstein -
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
-- Andrew Vachss -
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.
-- Ann Aguirre -
You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
-- Anthony Hamilton -
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
-- Ben Nicholson -
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
-- Bill Budge -
They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.
-- Bill Janklow -
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.
-- Caprice Crane -
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?
-- Chuck Eddy -
Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.
-- Conor McGregor -
If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.
-- Curtis Mayfield -
If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.
-- Dan Buettner -
Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.
-- Dane Reynolds -
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.
-- Darren Main -
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.
-- David Blaine -
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
-- David Copperfield -
Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
-- David Doubilet -
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.
-- David Malouf -
Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."
-- Dean Karnazes -
If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.
-- Dean Karnazes -
Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.
-- Dewitt Jones -
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.
-- Eli Broad -
The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.
-- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
-- Elizabeth Kolbert -
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.
-- Eric Zorn -
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
-- Erica Jong -
I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!
-- Eva Longoria -
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
-- Famke Janssen -
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.
-- Francesca Annis -
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.
-- Francine Rivers -
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.
-- Franz Josef Radermacher -
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
-- Gabriel Mann -
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.
-- George Mikes -
In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.
-- George S. Patton -
What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.
-- Giorgio Moroder -
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.
-- Greg Plitt -
The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?
-- Helen Keller -
Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
-- Helen Reddy -
I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
-- Ian Thorpe -
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett -
Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
-- J. Ogden Armour -
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.
-- Jack White -
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.
-- Jacqueline Woodson -
If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough
-- James Spithill -
I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
-- James Taylor -
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.
-- Jane Goodall -
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.
-- Jane Lynch -
If you're not creating waves, then you're not pushing enough.
-- Jared Cohen -
I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.
-- Jay Roach -
What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.
-- JC Chasez -
You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme -
Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.
-- Jenni Rivera -
I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.
-- Jennifer Pharr Davis -
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.
-- Jennifer Weiner -
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
-- Jeremy Collier -
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
-- Jerzy Kosinski -
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.
-- Jim Butcher -
I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
-- Jim Capaldi -
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.
-- Joan Halifax -
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.
-- John Poindexter -
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
-- John Ralston Saul -
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.
-- Jon Gruden -
I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.
-- Jonathan Evison -
We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
-- Jonathan Ive -
We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.
-- Jonathan Ive -
The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.
-- Josephine Tey -
Growth only really comes at the point of resisÂtance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts…pushing our limÂits is a musÂcle that can be culÂtiÂvated like any other–incrementally
-- Joshua Waitzkin -
We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.
-- Joshua Waitzkin -
The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.
-- Judy Woodruff -
She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.
-- Julie Anne Peters -
I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.
-- Kellan Lutz -
I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.
-- Kenny Wormald -
You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
-- Kenny Wormald -
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. - Amir
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.
-- Konstantin Chernenko -
A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation ethic that coastal fishermen have developed.
-- Larry J. McKinney -
There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you win. That’s democracy.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all coalesce into a marvellous kind of rhythm that reveals the life of the painting.
-- Leland Bell -
You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.
-- Leon Brown -
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.
-- Lindsey Vonn -
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
-- Lou Reed -
Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day.
-- Lucy Liu -
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
-- Mario Andretti -
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
-- Mark Twain -
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.
-- Marty Meehan -
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.
-- Matthew Gray Gubler -
This is what we’ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win.
-- Max Keiser -
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.
-- Melissa Rosenberg
