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• Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.

  Richard Branson

  People, Limits, Satisfaction

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.

  Eric Thomas

  Running, Pain, Successful

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• What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.

  Marina Abramovic

  Lying, Water, Everyday

  "Marina Abramović Saves the World" by Kimberly Cutter, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 10, 2013.

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• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Heart, Writing, Issues

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• The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.

  Jude Law

  Years, Law, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think its nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work youve done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.

  Joan Smalls

  Nice, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, World, Way

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• I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Art, Climbing, Suffering

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• There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

  Forest Whitaker

  Trying, Different, Something New

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.

  Rian Johnson

  Real, Thinking, Different

  "Rian Johnson Talks “Looper”, Bruce Willis' Voiceover, And 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. January 9.

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• It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

  Grant Achatz

  Cooking, Levels, Hard

  Interview with Joanne Camas, www.epicurious.com.

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• 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.

  Anna Netrebko

  Teacher, Moving, Want

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• You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Islands, Want

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• If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.

  G-Eazy

  Progress, Steps, Hungry

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Obsession, Danger

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• You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.

  Hilary Swank

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Giving, Roles, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Athlete, Important, Olympics

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• It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

  Rose Leslie

  Fun, Thinking, Healthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

  Robert Genn

  Blow, Miracle, Insecurity

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• I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

  Naomi Benaron

  Running, Thinking, Discipline

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• The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Team, Writing, Winning

  Source: www.dualshockers.com

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• I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

  Sam Mendes

  Car, Cost, Pushing

  Source: collider.com

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• The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

  Greg LeMond

  Thinking, Keys, Cycling

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