Pushing Quotes
Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.
So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.
Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who did that after pushing out the dictatorship in 1997.
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.
What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.
If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.
I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.
I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.
I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.
It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.
Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.