Pushing Quotes:

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

- Aaliyah

topic: Individuality, Style, Pushing

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

source: Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

topic: Important, Pushing, Mouths, Sawyer

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

- Abel Ferrara

topic: Actors, Pushing

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Kids, Parent, Pushing

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

source: "Fitness Superstar Jillian Michaels On Weight Loss, Healthy Eating & More!". Interview with Jessica Lipps, onmogul.com.

topic: Entrepreneur, Pushing, Failing

You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.

- Alexander Gustafsson

topic: Mma, Way, Pushing

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

topic: Might, Pushing, Borders, Amazing Places

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

- Andrew Bernstein

topic: Stress, Needs, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

- Andrew Vachss

topic: People, Pushing, Fabric

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

- Anthony Hamilton

topic: Dream, Matter, Pushing

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Quality, Pushing, Clients

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

- Bill Budge

topic: Coders, Pushing

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

topic: Pushing, Cards, Looks, Credit Card, American Express

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

- Bill Sienkiewicz

topic: Envelopes, Pushing, Honorable, Pushing The Envelope

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

- Bill Sienkiewicz

topic: Pushing, Safe, Kind, Pushing Boundaries, Simultaneous

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

topic: Dating, Cafeteria, Pushing, Cashiers

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

- Cheryl Strayed

source: Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Change, Effort, Pushing

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

- Chuck Eddy

topic: Thinking, Pushing, Bother, Why Bother, Thinking The Same

Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

- Conor McGregor

topic: Mma, Pushing, Keep Positive, Pushing On

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

topic: Too Much, Pushing, Praying, Too Much Work

Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.

- Curtis Mayfield

source: Song: Move on Up, Album: Curtis, 1970

topic: Dream, Pushing, Remember

Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.

- Dane Reynolds

topic: Fall, Thinking, Pushing, Blowing It

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

source: Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.21, BookBaby

topic: Responsibility, Pushing, Problem, Projection

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Feelings, Pushing, Just Believe

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

- David Copperfield

topic: Magic, Pushing

Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.

- David Doubilet

topic: Thinking, Buttons, Pushing

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

source: FaceBook post by David Malouf from Dec 16, 2013

topic: Pushing, Mystery, Consciousness, Imaginary Life

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

topic: Running, Pushing, Failing

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

topic: World, Pushing, Celebration, Pushing Ourselves, Allowing

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

topic: Ideas, Maintaining, Pushing, Challenging Status Quo, Challenging The Status Quo

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

topic: World, Pushing, Accused, American Woman

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

- Elizabeth Kolbert

source: Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black

topic: Humanity, Extinction, Pushing

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

- Erica Jong

topic: Teaching, Feminism, Pushing

I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

- Eva Longoria

topic: Pushing

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

- Famke Janssen

source: "Famke Janssen on her directorial debut, the X-Men films, and Taken 2". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2012.

topic: Trying, Buttons, Pushing

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

topic: America, Luck, Pushing

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

topic: Christian, Trying, Pushing, Best Christian, Best Students

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

topic: Humanity, Limits, Pushing, Impossible Becomes Possible, Tipping Point

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Waiting, Looks, Pushing

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

topic: Behaviour, Crowds, Pushing, Queues, Orderly

In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.

- George S. Patton

topic: Perseverance, Doubt, Pushing

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

source: "Face to face: Giorgio Moroder vs Daft Punk". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. June 7, 2013.

topic: Pushing, Doe, Genius, Loops

When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.

- Greg Plitt

topic: Wind, Pushing, Sail, Oar

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

topic: Accomplishment, Joy, Pushing

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

- Helen Reddy

topic: People, Needs, Pushing

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Swimming, Training, Pushing

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

topic: Sarcastic, Hanging On, Pushing, Dear Life

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

- J. Ogden Armour

topic: Men, Class, Pushing

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

topic: People, Feel Good, Pushing, Clapping

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

- Jacqueline Woodson

topic: People, Pushing, Someday

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

- James Spithill

topic: Sailing, Pushing, Enough

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

topic: Thinking, People, Pushing

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

topic: Responsibility, Animal, Pushing, Chimpanzees

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

topic: Art, Pushing, Boundaries, Pushing Boundaries

If you're not creating waves, then you're not pushing enough.

- Jared Cohen

topic: Motivational, Creating, Pushing

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

- Jay Roach

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Pushing, Great Things, Pushing Each Other

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

- JC Chasez

topic: Artist, Creative, Pushing

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

- Jean-Claude Van Damme

topic: Wall, Perfect, Pushing, Your Wall, Triceps

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

- Jenni Rivera

source: Jenni Rivera (2013). “Unbreakable: My Story, My Way”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pushing, Steps, Steps Forward

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

- Jennifer Pharr Davis

source: "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

topic: Endurance, Limits, Pushing

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

topic: Rocks, Pushing, Machines, Great Philosophers

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

- Jeremy Collier

topic: Giving, Way, Pushing, Countenance

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

- Jerzy Kosinski

topic: Self, Order, Pushing

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

source: Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.170, Penguin

topic: Point Break, Ego, Pushing

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

- Jim Capaldi

topic: Creativity, Pushing, Boundaries, Pushing Boundaries

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

topic: Spiritual, Moving, Pushing, Steps Forward

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

topic: Outcomes, Pushing, Enough

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

- John Ralston Saul

topic: Leader, Risk, Pushing

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

topic: Thinking, Pushing, Offers

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

- Jonathan Evison

topic: Believe, Challenges, Pushing, Challenging Myself

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

topic: Not Good Enough, Stuff, Pushing, Afraid To Fail

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

- Jonathan Ive

topic: Design, Pushing, Failing

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

source: Josephine Tey (2012). “Brat Farrar”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mind, Littles, Pushing, Little Minds, Horrible Things

Growth only really comes at the point of resis­tance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts…pushing our lim­its is a mus­cle that can be cul­ti­vated like any other–incrementally

- Joshua Waitzkin

source: "Learning about Learning". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, sharpbrains.com. January 21, 2009.

topic: Hurt, Growth, Pushing

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

- Joshua Waitzkin

topic: Education, Lying, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.

- Judy Woodruff

topic: Fields, Pushing, Boundaries

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

topic: Pushing, Situation, Handle

I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.

- Kellan Lutz

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Limits, Pushing, Action

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

- Kenny Wormald

topic: Elements, Pushing, Steps, Dance Steps, Learning Something New

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

topic: Long, Want, Pushing

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

topic: Silence, Pushing, Buttons, Amir, Quiet Life

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

- Konstantin Chernenko

source: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1984). “Speeches and Writings”, Pergamon

topic: War, Nuclear, Pushing, Whipping

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

topic: Way, Pushing, Ethics

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

topic: Home, Trying, Pushing

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

- Lindsey Vonn

topic: Fall, Athlete, Pushing, Pushing It

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

- Lou Reed

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Two, Three, Pushing, Pushing It, Velvet Underground

Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day.

- Lucy Liu

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hot, Jello, Pushing, Hot Days

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

- Mario Andretti

topic: Men, Names, Pushing

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

- Mark Twain

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Pushing, Physical Fitness, Physical Exercise

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

topic: Benefits, Pushing, Republican

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

- Mary Hart

topic: Pushing, Journalist

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

topic: Actors, Littles, Pushing, Stunning

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

topic: Writing, World, Pushing

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

- Meshell Ndegeocello

topic: Stars, Pushing, Needs, Record Companies

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

- Michel Martelly

topic: Pushing, Want, Force, Peacekeeping

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

- Mila Kunis

source: "Mila Kunis On Kissing Justin Timberlake, Natalie Portman: Who Is Best?", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2011.

topic: Happy Life, Knowing Who You Are, Pushing, Pushing It, Cockiness

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.

- Mischa Barton

topic: Feelings, Pushing, Week, Freaky

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. You've always got to stick with whatever you're into because you're day is going to come. You're day is destined. If you walk away from that, whether it be from fear or whether you're just giving up. The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

- Nas

source: "Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Giving Up, Pushing, Sticks, Don't Ever Give Up

Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.

- Nick Cave

topic: Imagination, Able, Pushing

Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.

- Oliver DeMille

topic: Responsibility, Rewards, Pushing

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

- Pat Benatar

topic: Thinking, Pushing, Envelopes, Pushing The Envelope

Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

- Puff Daddy

topic: Height, Pushing, Boundaries

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

topic: Heart, Leader, Pushing, Dictating

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

- Richard N. Haass

topic: Hands, Upper Hand, Pushing, Regime Change

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.

- Richard Winger

topic: Revenge, Feel Good, Pushing

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

- Ricky Williams

topic: Soul, Pushing, Whispering

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

- Robert Breault

topic: Graduation, Limits, Pushing

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

- Robert Smith

topic: Pushing, Demise, Accepted, Pushing It

Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.

- Ryan Shay

topic: Running, Passion, Pushing, Motivational Running, Will To Win

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

- Sally Hawkins

source: "Sally Hawkins: low-key star with plenty to smile about" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2017.

topic: Risk, Pushing, Push Yourself

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.

- Sally Ride

source: "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.

topic: Mars, Pushing, Study, Pushing Back

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.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Pushing, Energy, Molecules

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.

- Sarah Strohmeyer

topic: Risk, Way, Pushing

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

- Sean Parker

topic: Thinking, Pushing, Push Yourself

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!

- Sherilyn Fenn

topic: Pushing, Connections, Watches, Love Connection

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

- Sibel Edmonds

source: "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with by Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 07, 2004.

topic: People, Pushing, Members, Family Members

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

- Simon Sinek

topic: Pushing, Being The Best, Push Yourself

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.

- Spencer Grammer

source: "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2010.

topic: Dying, Pushing, Boundaries

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

- Stephen King

topic: Thinking, Pushing, Stories

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

- Steve Ballmer

topic: People, Pushing, New Directions

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing, and seeing how far I can go.

- Taraji P. Henson

source: "Exclusive: Taraji P. Henson Talks PERSON OF INTEREST and LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 1, 2011.

topic: Challenges, Pushing, Challenging Myself

Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.

- Tariq al-Hashimi

source: "Iraqi vice president predicts return to sectarian violence" by Mohammed Tawfeeq, Frederik Pleitgen, www.cnn.com. January 30, 2012.

topic: Country, Pushing, Dimensions

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

topic: Success, Husband, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

Never despair, keep pushing on!

- Thomas Lipton

topic: Motivational, Despair, Pushing, Pushing On

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?

- Thomas Reid

topic: Pushing, Looks, Homeless

And that's what everyone at Apple is focused on - pushing forward and creating the future.

- Tim Cook

topic: Apples, Creating, Pushing, Pushing Forward, Creating The Future

With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

- Tom Cruise

topic: Character, Careers, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down...

- Tom Petty

topic: World, Pushing

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself,

- Travis Barker

topic: Limits, Pushing, Want

Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Hurt, Memories, Pushing

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

- Vijay Singh

topic: Sports, Pushing

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

- Walter Payton

topic: Running, Pushing, Push Yourself

It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

- Warren Beatty

topic: Issues, Engagement, Pushing

Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.

- Werner Erhard

topic: Pushing, Stuck

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.

- Willem Dafoe

topic: Stories, Pushing, Buttons

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

- Aisha Hinds

source: Source: www.theaquarian.com

topic: Honor, Stories, Pushing

I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

- Aldis Hodge

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Pushing, Spirit, Ready

The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought.

- Andre Vltchek

topic: Battle, West, Pushing

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.

- Andrea Davis Pinkney

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Past, Years, Pushing

Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.

- Angel Grant

topic: Yoga, Pushing, Awareness

In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

- Chris Paine

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Marketing, Pushing, Hell, Mileage, Toyota

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

- Dan O'Brien

topic: Shapes, Limits, Pushing, Personal Best

I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my training, making sure I warm up and warm down before everything and not pushing myself too stupidly.

- Greg James

topic: Ifs And, Training, Pushing

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

- James D'arcy

topic: Different, Pushing, Boat

What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption.

- Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Challenges, Pushing

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.

- Leni Zumas

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Decision, Pushing, Language

I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.

- Michael Abrash

topic: Careers, Pushing, I Can

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

- Michael Demon Calce

topic: Hacking, Pushing, Status Quo, How Far You Can Go

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

- Nigel Cooke

topic: Jumping, Pushing, Language

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.

- Robert F. Engle

topic: Opportunity, Years, Pushing, Carbon Tax

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

- Roger L'Estrange

topic: Pushing, Insatiable, Pushing On

I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

- Roy Lee

topic: Scare, Pushing, Horror

If you have no doubt in what you are about to do, you are not pushing yourself hard enough.

- Silvio Micali

topic: Doubt, Pushing, Push Yourself

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.

- Bryan Burk

topic: Lasts, Pushing, Truth Is, Crass

I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.

- Bryce Wilson

topic: Done, Pushing, Excited

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.

- Alan Guth

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Pushing, Multiverse

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

- Alberto Santos-Dumont

topic: Wall, Air, Pushing, Brick Wall

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

topic: Winning, Waiting, Pushing

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

- Bonnie Prudden

topic: Fun, Hard Work, Pushing

I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.

- Nichole Nordeman

source: "Dove Award winning singer/songwriter Nichole Nordeman talks about life away from full-time music and writing songs for 'The Story'". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Comfort, Pushing, Push Yourself, Stretching Yourself

Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.

- David Sirota

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: President, Pushing, Republican

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.

- Dharma Singh Khalsa

source: Dharma Singh Khalsa (2003). “Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cancer, Mutation, Pushing, Chronic Illness

If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.

- Don Hertzfeldt

source: Source: www.cutprintfilm.com

topic: People, Risk, Pushing, Film Festivals

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.

- Ron Howard

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Sports, Limits, Pushing

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.

- Ronald Rolheiser

topic: Love, Pushing, Entry, Pushing Ourselves

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

- Gong Li

topic: People, Attention, Pushing, Center Of Attention, Sidelines

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.

- Hillary Scott

topic: Song, Different, Pushing

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

- Holland Cotter

topic: Art, Personality, Pushing

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

- Takeru Kobayashi

topic: Wise, Might, Pushing

The only way you find what your limits are is by pushing them.

- Terri Irwin

topic: Pushing, Way, Limits

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.

- Jamie Hyneman

topic: Pushing, Process, Insight

We only get better by pushing ourselves.

- Tom Aikens

topic: Get Better, Pushing, Pushing Ourselves

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.

- Travis Pastrana

source: Source: dirtaction.com.au

topic: Fun, Wife, Pushing

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

- Karl E. Weick

source: Attributed to Karl E. Weick in Subrah S. Iyar "Why Buy the Cow" (p. 21), 2007.

topic: Pushing Boundaries, Pushing, Boundaries

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.

- Margaret Brown

source: Source: www.austinchronicle.com

topic: Ex Boyfriend, Surfing, Pushing

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

- Adi Da

topic: Luck, Weight, Pushing

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

- Paul R. Ehrlich

source: Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black

topic: Humanity, Extinction, Pushing, Species Extinction

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.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Adventure, Trying, Pushing

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Pushing, Invisible, Graves

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.

- Louis C. K.

source: "Louis C.K. on Twitter and Tracy Morgan". Interview with Austin L. Ray, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2011.

topic: Trying, Envelopes, Pushing, Pushing The Envelope

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

- Albert Einstein

source: Letter to his son Hans Albert Einstein, June, 1918.

topic: Pushing, Prams, Plans

By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.

- Christopher Atkins

topic: People, Pushing

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.

- Jessica Chastain

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Pushing, Males, Lobbyists

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.

- T. D. Jakes

source: "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

topic: Sleep, Trying, Pushing

I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Envelopes, Sake, Pushing, Pushing The Envelope

So that would be my input and I'd go off and I'd work on another film, and then I'd catch up with them later on in the year. We just kind of nursed the piece along. There was no timeframe. We didn't have anyone pushing us except ourselves to make the film, and a desire. And then the organic kind of naming of Roger; then it happened really fast.

- Pierce Brosnan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Years, Desire, 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.

- George Carlin

topic: Dream, Gone, Pushing, Slipping Away

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Destiny, Looks, Pushing

If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.

- Dan Buettner

topic: Vegetables, Pushing, Eating

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

- George Lucas

topic: Envelopes, Pushing, Evolution, Pushing The Envelope

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

- George Orwell

topic: Light, Faces, Pushing

We Americans are focused on Russia`s attacks with our electoral system and we`re consumed with that. But Russia is pushing against the West generally.

- Daniel Fried

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Russia, West, Pushing, Electoral Systems

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Opposites, Statistics, Pushing

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Senior, Looks, Pushing

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

topic: Pushing, Mets, Persons

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.

- Tim Burton

source: Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Real, Actors, Pushing, Nicholson

When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George W.] Bush stopped pushing for it, Congressman Pence kept pushing for it.

- Tim Kaine

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: President, Pushing, Cheerleader, President George W Bush, Privatization

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.

- Raymond Chandler

source: Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.216, Univ of California Press

topic: Writing, Mean, Pushing, Creative Writing, Writers And Writing

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

- John Lewis

source: "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

topic: Giving Up, Pushing, Persistent

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

- Glenn Beck

source: Interview with Gary Kopycinski, enewspf.com. March 15, 2010.

topic: Justice, Bishops, Pushing