Push Quotes by Beth Gibbons, Ger Duany, Rita Rudner, Evangelos Venizelos, Elizabeth Gilbert, Ellen Stofan and many others.
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.
My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.
I don’t want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I’ll just make you laugh.
Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it’s not worth talking about.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.
I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
I always want to push myself as far as possible; I always want to be up there and recognised as a good goalie and have people appreciate what you do.
There are no figures in the Trump campaign who colluded with Russia – but there were at least five in the Obama administration who helped push the bogus narratives of collusion and obstruction, and they have plenty of questions to answer.
With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn’t want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
I wouldn’t push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?
As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
If you never budge, don’t expect a push.
I’ve been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.
It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.
When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it’s a mental one – the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.
With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We’re very lucky because ‘Modern Family’ wouldn’t fit on cable: they’d want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it’s not.
My one hope for Netflix and Amazon is to be a little more art house- and indie-friendly, pushing those just as hard as they push their originals.
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don’t be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot – it’s good for you!
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo’s record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune – a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
It’s not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
Twyla’s works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night’s sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
You can’t invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It’s too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that’s a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn’t right.
I’m not totally altruistic. I’ve always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there’s this pressure.
By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.
Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.
It is exactly in tough times when we discover our full potential, it allows our mind and body to push ourselves beyond our limits.
I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
I’ve never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
I’m competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
You don’t have to change who you are for anyone: if you are your regular, authentic, confident self, then you can push to do whatever you want.
If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let’s face it. And any little bit – you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it.
I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you’ve never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.
My workout is always with a trainer because, quite honestly, I don’t think most people are motivated enough to do what they need to on their own. You either need a spotter or you need a trainer. You need somebody there to push you to get that extra five.
Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.
You don’t have to do everything by the time you’re 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It’s what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
When I’m in the gym, I always try and pair a push and a pull motion. I’ll then follow that with a lot of shoulder stability work.
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.
There have been women who have pioneered and paved the way for me to be able to sit here and to have a platform. And it’s my job and my duty to continue to push the boundary for equality on all spectrums.
My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.
The ’80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
I always pull over for people who need a push.
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren’t meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.
We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.
If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.
As creatives, it’s a hard thing to push, to make something you’re truly excited about, especially if you’ve written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.
There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There’s an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.
When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
One cannot understand what’s happening to women in the Middle East if they don’t realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
We’re pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we’re going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.
Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don’t know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.
Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It’s all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.
Returning serve on clay is not easy because you don’t always have a sure footing so you can’t push off in the way that you would like.
I realized a very long time ago, that I was never going to be the guy who, ‘Oh, you look so big, let’s push him in the main event and see,’ or, ‘Oh, this guy’s got the best physique ever, let’s put him in the main event and see.’ It was always going to be the hard way.
They tell me: ‘OK, this is where we’re going to push up your cleavage,’ and I’m like, ‘What cleavage?’
You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
It’s a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved – people’s ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It’s dramatic, it’s interesting, and I think it’s something we can all identify with to a degree.
I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.
Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
There’s a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we’ll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity – are frankly better cities to live in – than if we settle for the status quo.
The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it’s now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.
I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I’m not scared to fail.
I love the powerful woman who’s complicated. There’s no push to be one thing or another thing. It’s all human. That’s what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.
You set your goals to a point where they’re attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
I look at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them to the side and say, ‘You’re not needed.’ Uncle Sam is going to be the dad: he’s going to provide for the kids; he’s going to feed the kids.
I’m really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it’s kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and to see how far I want to push the elements.
Normally, we push away the things we’re scared of.
I refuse to totally grow up. I’ve always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
The ‘Saw’ sequels went in a direction I wouldn’t have gone in. With ‘Insidious 2,’ I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days – museums have to bring in money – but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.
When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn’t pleasant. I always think: ‘Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?’ But I have to remember the bigger picture.
A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
I think there’s a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go… The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.
I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that I’ve spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.
I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology – and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.
FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.
We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
To be able to know that I can push myself a little further than you think you can was so important. And that it’s a mental barrier more than anything. You can break through it.
Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil’s tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.
The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.
It’s like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn’t have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that’s the joy of it.
Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.
I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, ‘Look at that idiot!’ That’s how I got over being shy.
I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it’s something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don’t read – that’s your call.
The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
That’s what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.
The trick at Le Mans is to get the car ‘in the window.’ Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window – it’s about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer – I’m going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.
So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It’s going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don’t anticipate it coming down rapidly.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
You have nothing if you’re texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push ‘reply all.’ I mean, since we’re lying, we might as well lie to everybody.
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.
The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.
My theory is, independent movies only work if you’re willing to push the material and do something different.
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist – a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde – making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.
I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven’t been before as a human being.
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you’re just afraid to put yourself out there, and it’s uncomfortable because it’s working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
It’s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
I said I wanted to be the best in the world. I thought if I could make it, I would be able to change my future, to change my destiny. I would push myself to the limits. I would do 70 laps and barely eat.
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I’ve always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, ‘I’m here, I exist, I’m a human being and you can’t just push me aside.’
Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.
I’ve done a couple of songs which are not up to the mark. So, mentally, I’ve set a goal that I should be more dynamic and try and push myself as much as I can.
Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are the main event of WrestleMania 34 because neither one is content, and both are ambitious enough to push the limits of what is now considered their greatest moment, and that’s the point that neither one will ever accept. They will never accept the idea that they’ve peaked as individuals.
As I reflect on the successes and failures of our push for democracy, reading widely in search for a path out of authoritarian rule, I’ll keep writing to encourage myself and those on my side.
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.
I tend to walk through life sort of looking through a pair of binoculars, and I focus on certain things and push out the rest.
No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.
I don’t know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he’s in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.
Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.
There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation – and I think that’s all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
I look at directing as a sporting event. It’s a race, a marathon. It’s great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.
The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, ‘Don’t go back to war.’ That’s all they said. They didn’t push anything else.
After ‘Punk’d,’ my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push.
We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We’ve got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.
As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don’t push the boundaries, then what’s the point of having it?
An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility – along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure – would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
I’ve always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That’s just how I am and it’s worked for me.
In the late-’80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn’t really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don’t really know why – I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn’t really know what was going on.
You’re not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I’m not afraid to do that.
As a stylist, it is important for me to always steer my clients in the right direction and to push them when I feel it is necessary.
I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.
Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: ‘If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.’ I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God’s sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids’ heads.
I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
It’s like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.
You almost can’t avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe.
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person’s memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it’s all action; you must push the story on.
Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there’s not necessarily a right or wrong answer.
Anything is possible. No one understands how far you can push your body to the limit, and I like to play with that.
I put the words down and push them a bit.
The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards – and resistance against – modernization.
I love to see how far you’re able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.
I’ve always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.
It can no longer be an afterthought in a child’s development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child’s brain at the elementary levels.
I thrive on obstacles. If I’m told that it can’t be told, then I push harder.
I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.
So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you’re here to continually push forward and move forward. That’s where I’m at – I just want to always surprise people.
We are pushing the limits on the chassis and the engine sides a lot in order to have a competitive car, and this is why we are winning races, but also, if you push the limits at a certain stage, you find them.
The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world’s problems.
Dogs are forever in the push up postion.
On ‘The Dragon Prince’, we wanted to push that even more to leverage the strengths of a CG and 3D pipeline. We wanted details on the character designs, in the costumes and sets, that you really can’t get in traditional 2D animation.
I watched World’s Strongest Man growing up on TV and I just loved all of that, so I decided to enter a Strongman contest – just for fun. Really. For no other reason than that I just wanted to compete in something and push myself. I ended up loving it from the get-go and also found that I was very gifted.
There’s the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world’s going to win out, because it’s just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
You don’t need to know this – but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I’ll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader – on a bad one, it’s the shipping forecast.
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
It’s my job… to push people out of their comfort zones. But we got to have a reason to do it. We don’t do it gratuitously.
Whether I’m running, working, relating, parenting, learning – whatever I’m doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.
You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.
Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
All the things I talk about are true, but some of them I may tweak a little bit. A lot of it is the way I feel about wrestling. When you have a character like mine, you can push the envelope and go far with some of the issues.
Why can’t it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can’t we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we’re not trying to steal from anybody – we’re trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will also push you to do precisely the things that scare you.
I was nervous. I was thinking, ‘Gee, he’s Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.’ But I enjoyed it, you know. That’s what I got into acting to do – to push myself and see if I can do these things.
But braking is so difficult, especially in single-seaters. You’re millimetres from locking up in the braking zones. Having to feel that through the hands? You don’t get anything like the same feedback when you hit a pedal and feel it push back against you.
I have been very, very fortunate on this show, on ‘Suits,’ where the writers do come to me, and they ask my comfort level and, if they want to push an envelope in a certain direction, if I’m okay with that. And, by and large, I am. I think it’s important.
Sound should bring you in. We have people in all these specialized departments to make it one whole. They are supposed to work together to bring us into their world, not push us away. For example, rock music has to be loud, but it doesn’t have to be too loud.
You don’t know how far you can go until you push it.
Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.
I’ve done a couple of songs which are not up to the mark. So, mentally, I’ve set a goal that I should be more dynamic and try and push myself as much as I can.
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.
I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who’ve been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don’t feel worthy of it, that’s why they push people away.
It doesn’t have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people’s opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women’s opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
There are people who can’t bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, ‘OK, today’s not the day.’
Never assume you can’t do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I’m my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don’t really push for that extra whatever.
In a basic sense, ‘A Little Life’ is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It’s a different version of adulthood, but it’s no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else’s.
I never hand in a book until it’s completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He’s the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
I could never work in that kind of commercial environment where the stars have a lot to say, where the producers kind of push you around and tell you who to cast and who not to cast. I’m just not interested in that at all.
Every opportunity that you get in life to do something unique, that’s going to challenge you and push you, is an opportunity that I want to take, especially as a footballer.
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, ‘Convert this to Android format.’
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
I take things that already exist and just push them.
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
I know what I bring to the table, I know my work. That’s why I’m able to push for what I want.
Gay, straight, whatever – none of that actually matters when you’re fighting someone. Not what you have in your bank account, what you drive, what sex you are, none of it. I think that’s the message the UFC has been trying to push.
Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.
You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don’t want to do.
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.
For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That’s the area I excel in. That’s where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
Sometimes when you get in this game, you think that you’re going to take off if you do a song with someone big. But that’s not the truth. Everything with you got to be good – the visual, the push, the production.
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don’t want to go.
For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.
Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn’t push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don’t have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they’ve had the opportunities.
I have my moments of insecurity and figuring out what’s going on and what I’m supposed to do, but if you don’t push yourself, you’re not growing, so where do you go?
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You’re online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It’s a job that you never push aside.
I think I’m a living embodiment of, ‘Don’t try to push me around or squash me,’ whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.
It’s the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you’re able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.
When you’re a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you’re always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I’ve some other reference for extreme experience that isn’t me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It’s a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
I’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
I always want to push myself as far as possible; I always want to be up there and recognised as a good goalie and have people appreciate what you do.
Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.
When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it’s just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
The truth is that I’m an idiot. I am. I don’t do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn’t say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.
Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be – you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.
You always have to be ready. When I’m washing dishes, I have to have a towel ready so I can dry my hands and push the record button on my phone.
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
I think my riding has hopefully gotten a lot better, but I’m always trying to push myself.
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
It’s so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren’t certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.
You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
Integrity is integrity. I don’t push it to the side because I’m talking to Julia Roberts.
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There’s a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There’s a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There’s a sixth sense you develop just because it’s New York.
I’m interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I’m capable of going. In real life, I’m not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that’s it. You might scream on the way down, but you’re going to hit the bottom, and you’re not going to be in elective office.
Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
In an environment where you’ve got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you’ll be successful is actually much higher.
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn’t a stage mother; she didn’t push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.
I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they’re not going for the best, it kills me.
There’s no such thing as saying that we’ll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.
I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.
While our social life is taken care of by the social media, fitness is one activity that needs a push.
Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It’s the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It’s gratuitous robotics!
Where the gaming world is going – and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me – is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.
Sometimes the simplest tasks are so incredibly challenging but everyday I try and I make choices to push myself further than I could ever imagine.
When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that’s part of Motley Crue’s legacy.
The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It’s time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
If at the end of May we don’t, we’ll reform, regroup, decide how we’re going to go about it, but if the task force can’t come up with the bill, I’m going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we’ve been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.
What I’ve learned how to do as I’ve gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I’ve ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.
Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.
We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.
I realize that although I’d like to make films as a career after I’m done playing, I really love basketball; I really love my career, an opportunity to compete every day and to push myself physically, mentally and emotionally.
Obama’s ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?
Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.
Sometimes – history needs a push.
Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.
I try and take lots of vitamins and I don’t drink. I do smoke, though, I’d be insufferable if I didn’t smoke, you’d have to push me off a balcony I’d be so boring.
It’s very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something – like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child – and if you don’t follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
It’s wonderful when you pair entrepreneurs together because they can share experiences and in some ways push each other to build better products going forward.
When I go on the set, I’m so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood – my mood and the actors’ mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don’t want to lose the mood.
The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it’s tough, but the second time, it’s always easier. You just have to push for your rights.
I also like to follow nature’s rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we’re born at this time, we just live it.
I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don’t know what I would be doing without it.
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic – like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it’s there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train together every day, and we can push each other on. That’s something many of our rivals don’t have when training day in day out.
We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.
Someone with 4As at A-level from Eton may look good on paper and come across as very smooth, but push a bit more, and often you get the impression they have learned to pass exams rather than think for themselves.
I’m always trying to push the envelope and go with a different hairstyle that you’re not going to see on anybody else. I have a really good grade of hair, and I can do a lot of different things with it.
After you’ve done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that’s going to push you towards – to find your inspiration.
A masterpiece doesn’t push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means – and change it as often as you like.
I’ve always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That’s just how I am and it’s worked for me.
I tend to walk through life sort of looking through a pair of binoculars, and I focus on certain things and push out the rest.
For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That’s one way of seeing the world. It’s dog eat dog. It’s, sadly, always going to be there.
The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I’m willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.
Most of my fights, I push the pace. I’m the aggressor.
I love my Disney fans. A lot of the kids want to grow up and push away from that image, but I don’t feel that way at all.
I’m drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
Dogs are forever in the push up postion.
We push experience aside and forget about people far too quickly.
There’s so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
If immigration reform passes, it’ll be a big victory for sanity – nobody really believes it’s healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it’ll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything. You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
As far as I’m concerned, the more power we push back to the patient, the individual, the American citizen, the more responsive the system is to her needs. ‘Obamacare,is responsive’ is like a hammer is responsive to a piece of glass.
I’m trying to be global and trying to push us, as a society, to becoming colorblind, and so I’m very grateful to ABC for casting me in ‘Quantico.’ It was based on my merit, not on my ethnicity.
I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.
I put so much pressure on myself. I’m my toughest critic. I always push myself to go harder than I did last time.
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it’s really bad because everything we’ve done is de-humanizing education. It’s destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it’s paid off.
Singing for stage, if you don’t hear yourself, that’s when you push, and that’s when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.
All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.
Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don’t know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be – there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
I think Jameis Winston will be a superstar in the NFL. I think all his off-the-field problems that he’s had will push him in a position to grow up and learn the hard way.
No experience is necessary to push yourself past what you think you can do.
I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I’m just adventurous. It’s most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.
I… now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that’s out of shape and behind the times.
I’m in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.
You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.
I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.
I love a lot of high speed turns, turns where you have to push yourself, force yourself to go fast. Then there’s something telling your foot to lift off, because it’s so fast, and it’s impressive when you get that feeling and just drive on.
I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don’t think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.
Drone attacks subvert the rule of law – we become judge, jury, and executioner – at the push of a button.
Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you’re trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.
Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.
Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person’s doing good, that’s motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it’s motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That’s what I did.
I want to push that no matter what race you are, you’re never just a sidekick or broken character. You’re the main character, you’re the funny character, you can be whatever you want.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.
Never assume you can’t do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
Why do you all push us around?
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
I like a role that is challenging. That’s what I look for and I’m certainly always looking to move further and maybe push myself into a place that might be temporarily uncomfortable so that I might learn something.
Every day, I’m trying to push the boundaries creatively, and sometimes it does push the boundary too far, and that’s what I had to learn.
Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.
The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty.
I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself; you don’t really know what the target is.
I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.
I just feel like if I push myself and I kill myself, then I have self-discipline within myself. That’s how you turn into a true pro.
I watch films that inspire me and make me want to go to work the next morning, that really push you and motivate you. So in that aspect, I look up to a lot of people.
We’re involved in racing because there’s that element of competition. But there’s that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.
There are many role models I’ve been around, and kind of the biggest one – there’s a show called ‘Push Girls,’ with all women in wheelchairs, and they’re all really good friends of mine. And one, Angela Rockwood, is still modeling, in a wheelchair. After a car accident.
Training helps you get physically stronger and a lot of times it helps you push the bar mentally as well.
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it’s going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it’s going to get larger and larger, and it’s going to keep coming up.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there’s so much clutter out there. You’ve got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It’s really just a lack of focus and discipline.
Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a ‘shellacking’ in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people’s desire for change.
I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That’s my take.
There’s a road that runs through our humanity and it traverses political and partisan lines, and my job as a U.S. senator is to do everything I can to point to that road that connects our collective humanity and to push forward legislation that’s good for everybody.
You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.
I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I’ve already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I’m capable of, and acting is definitely that.
I’m feeling better every race; it’s just about staying in it and continuing to push to learn, and I don’t doubt it will come.
I’ve always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
It’s sometimes said that I’m rebellious and I do things to push people’s buttons, but I just like the challenge.
When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing ‘Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.’ I said, ‘No, I want to sing all the other stuff.’ If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Part of the reason I wanted to model was to push the boundaries and challenge the perceptions of what a beautiful body is supposed to look like. Why should I feel any differently about looking good than anyone else?
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women’s economic empowerment and political participation.
There’s a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don’t have to push back as much as they would in real life.
Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there’s going to be a lot of flak, there’s going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time – to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it’s willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.
What I’ve realized is that we’re our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
We don’t need to dumb down our stuff. And it’s important to know how far we can push readers.
‘Push’ had a story, ‘The Paperboy’ story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn’t as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in ‘The Paperboy’; they were vivid.
I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I’m looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.
This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
For me, I think that I don’t like feeling pressure from outside sources. I’d rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.
I’ve been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner – and how that winner might be me.
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don’t. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.
If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
I don’t think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it’s just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.
A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively – from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that’s the only way you’ll succeed.
It’s interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it’s what we do, and it’s not like that in other parts of the world.
A label’s typical plan would be to put something out that’s safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
I hate working out – I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, ‘I can’t do it!’
With athletes, it’s never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
It is exactly in tough times when we discover our full potential, it allows our mind and body to push ourselves beyond our limits.
It’s great to see so many women grab the world by its lapel, push their limits, and shine through it all.
A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.
To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you’re not used to; it’s exciting.
I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N’ Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A…. push shuffle and anything will come on.
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn’t come at the push of a button.
I’m not going to vote for Donald Trump. There’s no way I would vote for him under any circumstance. However, I think that the protesters may as well send him some money, because I think they’re going to push people into his camp.
When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people’s eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Let’s push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.
The thing is, if you’re a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs.
My favorite job is the next one. It’s such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It’s an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
Just because ‘Planes’ is an animated movie doesn’t mean I don’t take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.
To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That’s what I’m still working on, having done this for 20 years now.
More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it’s always funnier.
I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It’s about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He’s always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.
If you feel the government should leave you alone, you’re a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you’re a Democrat.
I’ve always been a leader in the push for revenue sharing.
When you are on a climb, you always pick out people’s words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
You can’t cry when things get a little bit hard. You’ve just got to push through and know that there’s a reason and end to the means.
To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we’re also going to be a lot healthier.
We’re helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We’ve done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.
I’m not afraid to be me and push my opinions. At school, it always felt like girls were pitted against each other – that’s so awful and sad and something that I never do. It’s about accepting everyone and their choices.
I really love all sport. I watch sports when I can, but when push comes to show, I think I know it’s entertainment.
It’s good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
I’ve always been DJing; it’s just I’m making more of a push for it, making it more public.
With ‘Hip-Hop Saved My Life,’ I attempted to make ‘Kick, Push,’ but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it – if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.
Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don’t have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
Invest in a trainer. You see the progress so quickly, and you push yourself in new ways.
Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don’t know who that’s attributed to. I think it’s Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.
I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further – as long as there’s substance in terms of the material.
I… now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that’s out of shape and behind the times.
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
When push comes to shove, people vote alone.
You can say I’m not the easiest architect in the world, because I’m always trying to push the limits.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
I think there are steps that can be taken that haven’t been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.
I call my therapist every other day. It’s not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
I’ve always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they’d just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don’t need America or someone else to help.
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it’s going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it’s going to get larger and larger, and it’s going to keep coming up.
The ’80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.
Every one of us has a small but critical part to play in the battle against coronavirus. From washing our hands to wearing a face covering on public transport and in shops, every time we take one of these actions, we push the virus further into retreat.
It’s different every time you write. Sometimes it might be harder than it was the day before. I don’t like forcing it, but sometimes, if you force it a little bit, it helps you to push forward, and you get inspired in a way. I’ve written songs in an hour. And there are songs that have taken me six months.
I’m in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
With a Nine Inch Nails show, I’m building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.
Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.
For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I’d like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.
CARE and our partner organizations have found that one of the most effective ways of stopping child marriage is to tap into a parent’s love for their child. When parents learn about the consequences of child marriage, they’re far less likely to push their children into it.
Within our lifetimes, we will be able to push out enough computational power to simulate reality.
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.
I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power.
The biggest learning is that an athlete needs to know when to stop. To know that if I push beyond this, there could be a problem.
When China fails to live up to its obligations, we push back – sort of. We accept arguments from Chinese leaders that they are a developing country that needs time to reform.
My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do – push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story’s flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it’s almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you’ve already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you’d never dream of doing by yourself.
I have friends and experience from everywhere; I’ve worked in all kinds of locations and situations and in all kinds of job profiles, so there’s a varied experience that comes handy. And there’s something nice when you do something you’ve to push yourself to do it.
Once my pilot and I push and jump into the sled, I hold on for dear life in the back while she skillfully and hopefully quickly navigates the two of us down a mile of icy, often bumpy, sharp right and left turns. I then pull the brakes at the end.
This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.
Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
I’m willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I’m not sure I’ll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.
Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don’t have it, then I don’t have it, but at least I’m going to put myself out there. If I fail, I’m going to fail terrifically.
President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let’s have a ball. I’ll blow up the balloons myself.
You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.
‘The X Factor’ was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn’t have before. It’s a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you’re ready for the industry.
In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
There are many ways to push for much-needed reforms: One way is to make a donation. It doesn’t matter much whether you contribute publicly or in a private way – either way is good. What matters is your true intention.
The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.
Everything doesn’t happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God’s plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God’s lead, our work is to push back the darkness.
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
I think there are hardships with anything you do. And for us, we have our fans, who give us so much love and support. So, that helps us push forth with whatever we are doing, and it will continue to do that in the future.
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person’s doing good, that’s motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it’s motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That’s what I did.
I’m never doing anything by rote. I’m only on thin ice, and I think that that’s a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
I have days when I go to the gym and I can’t push that 315, but then I look at my video of me benching 6 reps at 315, and I know I did do that. That wasn’t a dream. That wasn’t some weird fantasy. So I know that next time I’ll go in and I’ll do that.
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It’s once the box of books arrive that I say I’m going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it’s done, and there is nothing I can do. I’m proud of the book.
My thing is, I like to do things as long as they’re relatively fluid or easy. Not to say that there isn’t any effort involved in making something happen, but I don’t like to push things or force things too much.
If you never budge, don’t expect a push.
I’ve never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously – everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don’t have to push that extra bit to sell what’s going on.
It’s a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved – people’s ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It’s dramatic, it’s interesting, and I think it’s something we can all identify with to a degree.
An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility – along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure – would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains – I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
I don’t think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it’s to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it’s time to push them wide open.
I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that’s not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.
We push ourselves and each other to be better. We’re close enough that we’re not timid around one another. We pitch so many ideas every day – sometimes good, sometimes bad. But it’s great to have a safety net where hopefully, between the two of us, nothing really bad will ever get through.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Because women have been marginalised, they’re more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don’t think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
There is so much going on in world, even just on the Internet. I think TV should push to put some of the positive things going on in shows, and also to discuss more of the negative things so more people can relate.
My father didn’t push me.
I don’t know how to be comfortable. Comfort is uncomfortable to me so I push myself to new places.
The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I’m continuing to do. You want to push boundaries, to not always be in your comfort zone. If you don’t, you get stale. So you have to find areas of growth.
Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I’ve known so many great conductors that I’m still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.
I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. It could actually push them to get out there and play the game for real. That’s great for the sport.
Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.
We are pushing the limits on the chassis and the engine sides a lot in order to have a competitive car, and this is why we are winning races, but also, if you push the limits at a certain stage, you find them.
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don’t know about. And the second, most important one is, push through the fear.
I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.
Business needs to push the agenda rather than waiting for it to happen.
Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.
If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.
Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.
As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
