Pushing Quotes - Page 18

• If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

  Bill Gates

  Fall, People, Would Be

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• It's fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It's a blessing. I can't lose sight of that and I've just got to keep pushing.

  Kevin Durant

  Dream, Fun, Blessing

  "Kevin Durant wins first career NBA MVP Award". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm the type of person that likes to give people a hard time, and I enjoy doing little pranks. If I see someone getting a little aroused I have to keep pushing that button.

  The Miz

  Hard Times, People, Giving

  "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.

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• I was only sitting here in my white study
  with the awful black words pushing me around.

  Anne Sexton

  White, Poetry, Black

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• Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five
  thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from
  anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I
  could completely imagine his suffering and I replied
  that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not
  imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to
  remember that about imagination, that is when the
  world gets dull when everybody does not know what
  they can or what they cannot really imagine.

  Gertrude Stein

  Brother, Imagination, Interesting

  "Everybody's Autobiography". Book by Gertrude Stein, Chapter 3, 1937.

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• Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

  Alexandra Robbins

  Children, Teenager, Book

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• It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Important, World, Seems

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• You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.

  Leon Brown

  Secret, Flow

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• As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Emotional

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• I'm doing the exact same thing and adding a little bit more flexibility. I'm going to bench here. I'm not a kicker who's just going to hang out at practice. I'm going to be in the weight room pushing linebackers, defensive ends, tight ends. I'm going to push everyone. whatever I'm doing, I'm putting up numbers that someone else would do. Not only do I love working out, but at the same time it's able for others to maximize their potential.

  Kyle Brindza

  Practice, Nfl, Numbers

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• Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U.S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.

  Sheldon Richman

  War, Isis, Iran

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• How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Book, Knowledge, Cutting

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• I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

  Robert Plant

  Voice, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

  Ariel Pink

  Ideas, Interesting, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.

  Tom Cruise

  Character, Careers, Stories

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• I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine.

  Harrison Ford

  Cute, Dog, Past

  "Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

  Douglas Booth

  Bored, Challenges, Mind

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.

  Nick Cave

  Imagination, Needs, Able

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.

  Jon Fitch

  Work Out, Enjoyed

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.

  Stella Chess

  Running, Baby, Children

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• Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

  Adi Da

  Luck, Weight, Pulling

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• If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life, Jobs, Husband

  "Rich Dad Poor Dad". Book by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter, 1997.

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• We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

  Francis Galton

  Views, Parent, Bud

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