Pushing It Quotes

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Running, Perseverance, Healing

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• I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Yoga, Teaching, Winter

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• The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval or I don’t think I’m worth two cents. And I am starting to get over it, thank God. And I’m just sad because I don’t have many years left and I wish I had a longer space of time to think that Elaine Stritch is okay.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

  Danny Elfman

  Wall, Moving, Ideas

  "Q&A: Danny Elfman". Interview with Kevin Cassidy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

  Saul Bass

  Believe, Get Better, Degrees

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• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Doe, Machines

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• The tighter you try and hold on to something that you are afraid of losing, the more you are pushing it away.Those thoughts are filled with fear, and if you continue to persist, what you fear the most will come upon you.
  Fear nothing - just think about what you want. It feels so much better!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

  Lewis Thomas

  Lying, Moving, Ideas

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

  Linus Torvalds

  Special, Different, Boards

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• Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

  Robert Smith

  Demise, Accepted, Accepting

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• One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

  Lou Reed

  Two, Three, Velvet Underground

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

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• I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

  Julia Barr

  Girl, Husband, Ribs

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• I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

  Tony Fadell

  Feelings, Doubt, Trying

  "iPod Creator Tony Fadell: Here's How You Build And Ship World-Class Products" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Magic

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• After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.

  Killer Mike

  Thinking, Race, Cities

  Source: www.complex.com

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• You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Two, Issues

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• I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Ghost Whisperer Junior. Or Ghost Screamer, more like it. Tune in, every week, as Chloe Saunders runs screaming from yet another ghost looking for her help." Okay, superpower might be pushing it.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Running, Winning, Laughing

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• I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Heart, Tongue, Cliffs

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What have the nibblers ever done for you?" The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of her eyes. They were asking for an answer. Needing to know if she could count on him. "They saved your life," he said. And for just a moment, Luxa's face softened and she smiled.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Hair, Giving

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.714, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Motivational, Sports, Fall

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• Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

  Mila Kunis

  Life, Knowing Who You Are, Cockiness

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• The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both-by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Years, Two

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