Pushing Quotes - Page 14

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

  J. Ogden Armour

  Men, Class, Rise Above

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• We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

  Ben Nicholson

  Quality, Clients, Advertising

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• When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

  Apolo Ohno

  Tired, Racing, Want

  "Speed skater Apolo Ohno". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Believe, Compassion

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• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inward, Cosmos, Looks

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it... if we just take a look at it.

  Krishna Das

  Letting Go, Mean, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Oct 09, 2013

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• The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

  Helen Keller

  Accomplishment, Joy, Obstacles

  "The Open Door".

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• I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

  Nicole Kidman

  Jobs, Thinking, Looks

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 26, 2016

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• I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

  Johnny Depp

  Trying, Want, Born

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• It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

  Henry James

  New York, Paris, Growing

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1987). “Henry James, Selected Letters”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

  Tom Petty

  World

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• Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Love, Directors, Actors

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• 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.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Country, Stars, Space

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• 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.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Change, Hands, Buttons

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• 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.

  Cheryl Lynn

  School, College, Years

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• [VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

  David Hare

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.

  Caridad Svich

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

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• We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

  Karen Traviss

  Odds, Might, Matter

  Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.165, Del Rey

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• If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?  Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love?  If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

  Francis Chan

  Calling, Earth, His Love

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.63, David C Cook

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• The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Past, Destiny, Average

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• Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

  Benjamin Carson

  Bully, Pushing Boundaries, Resistance

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• 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.

  Jason Derulo

  Fall, Thinking, Perfection

  Interview with Denise Kodia, www.mtv.co.uk. October 4, 2011.

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• Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous flow, the elasticity of the gas pushing its particles into space will continuously push the cask itself. The result will a continuous change in the motion of the cask. Given a sufficient number of taps (say, six), we would be able to regulate the outflow of the gas as we liked and the cask (or sphere) would describe any curved line in accordance with any law of velocities.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Law, Numbers, Space

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• See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Adventure, Giants

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 06, 2014

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• And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.

  Lauren Berlant

  Tired, Way, Rooms

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