Pushing Quotes - Page 19

• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Uprising, Our World, Long

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• The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes thought; the formative idea; the initial concept. Then comes the word. Most thoughts ultimately form themselves into words, which are often then written or spoken. This gives added energy to the thought, pushing it out into the world, where it can be noticed by others. Finally, in some cases words are put into action, and you have what you call a result; a physical world manifestation of what all started with a thought.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Ideas

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.164, Penguin

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• I think it's the snack food industry that's really pushing the marijuana legalization issue in California.

  John Pappas

  Marijuana, Thinking, Issues

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• Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Food, Pale Yellow

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• Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Insatiable, Pushing On, Avarice

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• Because others cannot vibrate in your experience, they cannot affect the outcome of your experience. They can hold their opinions, but unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all. A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction - but it does not affect you unless you push against them.

  Esther Hicks

  People, Doe, Outcomes

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• Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

  Chip R. Bell

  Games, Giving, Advice

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.96, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

  Warren G. Harding

  Thinking, Opposites, America

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• Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

  Bob Ross

  Dream, Secure, American Dream

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• Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Life, Country, Moving

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• Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  Wise, Might, Body

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• I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too wet' or 'The first couple chapters are good, but then the rest of the pages were so wet that they were completely illegible' or 'Did you dip this in Sprite? This smells like Sprite. Why would you dip your novel in Sprite?' And instead of pushing back, I'd listen. That's an incredibly important skill for a young writer to have.

  Toni Morrison

  Couple, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, People, Directors

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press Conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Musical, Bells, Conservative

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  Bette Midler

  Ambition, Cold, Fierce

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

  Adolf Galland

  Angel, Air, Flying

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• To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Wall, Air, Bricks

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• Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

  Tony Robbins

  Determination, Self Esteem, Emotional

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• I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet my whole life so my body really feels best when I feel strong and tight and toned, and I think that comes from years and years of constant training as a ballerina. Leading up to the show, getting out there in your underwear, you just want to feel your best mainly in your head than more anything else. Obviously you want to feel good physically too, so it's more just in your head, pushing yourself, approaching this challenge and taking the opportunity to push yourself a little further.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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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, Push Yourself

  Source: collider.com

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• Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

  Steve Earle

  Past, Pushing Forward, Reaching

  "Will Sheff Meets Steve Earle". Interview with Michael Tedder, www.spin.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

  Roy Lee

  Scare, Horror, Audience

  "Producer Roy Lee Talks THE RING, POLTERGEIST, and THE GRUDGE Reboots, A Darker Ending for Spike Lee’s OLDBOY Remake, and More". Interview on the set, collider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

  David Shields

  Care, Littles, Way

  "'I hadn't yet found the form that released my best intelligence.' - Interview with David Shields". Interview with Hayden Bennett, logger.believermag.com. April 18, 2013.

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• It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Struggle, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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