Pushy Quotes:

My, my, aren’t we pushy . . .

- Julie James

source: Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.291, Penguin

topic: Pushy

A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Pain, Gun, Men, Women Want, Uncompromising

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

- Judith Leiber

topic: Educational, Self, People, Pushy

I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

- Dabney Coleman

topic: Fun, Healthy, Way, Pushy, Fun Loving

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Education, Mother, Teaching, Good Education, Pushy

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

- Cindy Crawford

topic: Girl, Jobs, Nice, Nice Girl, Pushy

In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation. I had to ... find a way to present my point of view without being pushy or aggressive. In the old days, the only women I saw in this business were in makeup, hairdressing, and wardrobe departments. Now I'm surrounded by women executives, writers, directors, producers, and even women stagehands.

- Diahann Carroll

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

topic: Makeup, Views, White, Tap Dance, Pushy

In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.

- Sarah Sutton

topic: People, Needs, Easier, Pushy

My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

- Berenice Bejo

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Mom, Thinking, Parent, Pushy

Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own.

- Paul Feyerabend

source: Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.160, Verso

topic: Powerful, People, Surroundings, Pushy

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Men, Literature, Authority, Caustic, Pushy

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: People, Enlightenment, Care, Pushy

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Powerful, Leader, Trying, Epithet, Really Powerful

And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. I never missed having a wide, thick circle of girlfriends: Rina was more than enough. We were comfortable with each other's flaws and weaknesses, so we stuck together and kept to ourselves.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.29, Penguin

topic: Girl, Strong, Fun, Pushy

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

- Deborah Ann Woll

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Growing Up, Struggle, Thinking, Pushy, Nosey

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

- Alison Lurie

topic: Self, Land, America, Pushy, Promised Land

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

- Joshua Foer

topic: Islands, Laptops, Way, Coney Island, Pushy

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

- Juliette Binoche

topic: Phones, Waiting, Directors, Pushy

I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.

- David Sedaris

topic: Jobs, Writing, Self, Pushy, Self Promotion

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

- Christine Quinn

topic: Done, Way, Facts, Pushy

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

- Gregory David Roberts

source: Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

topic: Cousin, Real, Like Love, Pushy, Three Ways

I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

- Christine Quinn

topic: Personality, Done, Want, Pushy

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

- Gregg Popovich

topic: Basketball, Play, Trying, Pushy

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.

- Viggo Mortensen

topic: America, Spain, Culture, 17th Century, Pushy

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Believe, Feels, Noisy, Predestined, Pushy

I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

- Amos Oz

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Thinking, America, Israel, Nighttime, Hedonistic

There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.

- Neko Case

topic: Mean, People, Littles, Pushy

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

- Newt Gingrich

source: "What does Newt's past say about his future?". www.nbcnews.com. December 06, 2011.

topic: Self, Degrees, Apologizing, Pushy, Brash

I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

- Mark Ronson

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Cutting, Years, Skills, Red Alert, Pushy

Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.

- Mike Tirico

topic: Thinking, People, Peers, Syracuse, Pushy

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

- Christine Quinn

topic: Nice, Mean, Thinking, Life Going On, Pushy

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

- Karen Abbott

source: Source: tech.blorge.com

topic: Mother, Rose, Musical, Pushy

Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: School, People, Campaigns, Pushy

So what if your custom car shop tanks and you've gotta take a crappy job at an auto parts store, dealing with ignorant, pushy people. I'm okay with that, 'cause I'm an ignorant, pushy people person.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Titus / Life Forward". www.imdb.com. 2001.

topic: Jobs, People, Car, Pushy