Pushing Quotes

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

Sometimes, when Bridget was in a particularly melodious mood, Sophie thought about stalking downstairs and pushing her into the oven like the with in 'Hansel and Gretel.

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

The Republican Party's reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump's dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.

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

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

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

I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

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

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

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

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

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

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

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

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

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.

To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got.

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

I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."

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

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

[Donald Trump] said it's against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that's pushing all of them in terms of policy.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

Technology and the pace of change in media is pushing us into an uncomfortable area The media have perhaps become more cavalier towards pushing confidential information.

The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California.