source: "FASTER THE CHRONICLES: Dwayne Johnson – Exclusive Interview that Covers FASTER, FAST FIVE, THE OTHER GUYS, 3D, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 15, 2010.

topic: Technology, Bars, Envelopes, Pushing The Envelope, Raising The Bar

See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small.

- Robin Sharma

source: FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 06, 2014

topic: Dream, Adventure, Giants, Pushing The Envelope

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 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

If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

- Clint Eastwood

source: Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

topic: Pushing The Envelope

I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

- Keith Barry

topic: Tv Shows, People, Scare, Pushing The Envelope

I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.

- Nico Tortorella

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Directors, Actors, Want, Pushing The Envelope

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

I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?

- Tony Hsieh

topic: Motivational, Monday, Morning, Trying New Things, Pushing The Envelope

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

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.

- Milo Aukerman

source: Source: vandalamagazine.com

topic: Song, Long, Records, Pushing The Envelope

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

- Rita Dove

source: Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

topic: Writing, Mean, Trying, Pushing The Envelope

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

- Wayne Shorter

topic: Art, Creativity, Doors, Pushing The Envelope

I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

- Billy Joel

topic: People, Rolling, Stones, Pushing The Envelope

Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.

- Ian Foster

topic: Moving, Community, Innovation, Competitive Spirit, Pushing The Envelope

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.

- Sean Penn

topic: Political, Good Movie, News, Pushing The Envelope

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.

- MC Hammer

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Artist, Awards, Variation, Pushing The Envelope

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

- Adam Lambert

topic: Men, Years, Female, Pushing The Envelope

[Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Summer, Nice, Thinking, Forthcoming, Lilith

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