Pushing Quotes - Page 20

• Sometimes you're pushing and what you want to do is not coming with ease; doors are not opening. A lot of times we're pushing against resistance. If one looks closely, there is often a message in that resistance: "Wait a minute, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing."

  Farrah Gray

  Doors, Waiting, Looks

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• Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Important, Boundaries, Expected

  Source: www.skyword.com

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• I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goal, Ifs

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• If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  People, Risk, Watches

  Source: www.cutprintfilm.com

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• I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Character, Talking, Littles

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• We know there are a lot of good secondaries out there. We are just trying to focus on what we can do to get better. We've got some new, young guys coming in and we are trying to catch them up to speed. We are trying to make sure that we have depth, making sure the guys behind us know what is going on. We are going to keep pushing each other to raise the standard for our secondary.

  Eric Berry

  Focus, Guy, Trying

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.

  Anna Friel

  Girl, Hollywood, Daisies

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.

  Jessica Biel

  Art, Hate, Self

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Opportunity

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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• There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

  Dan O'Brien

  Shapes, Limits, Personal Best

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• I know that I have balls. I have bigger balls than a lot of the men that I meet. I'm just a ballsy motherf - ker. I'm not afraid of pushing boundaries. That's what you have to do to become an icon.

  Kesha

  Men, Icons, Balls

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• I tell my coach all the time "Hey, listen, coach. You know the hardest person on me isn't you, right? It's me." I'm the hardest person on myself, my biggest critic, always pushing. But there are days when I have to tell myself, "Relax, breathe, you're too stressed out." When it's no longer fun, when it's no longer something you can tolerate, that's when you have to take a break.

  Jonathan Horton

  Fun, Relax, Stressed

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• I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

  Ice Cube

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Producer Roundtable". Interview with Stephen Galloway, Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Asian, Different

  Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.

  Dustin Clare

  Guitar, Dancing, Challenges

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• Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

  Audie Murphy

  Teacher, Couple, War

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• What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Fun, Hard Work, Seeing

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• Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doors, Brain, Patterns

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• The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

  Reza Aslan

  Meaningful, Media, Religion Of Islam

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Issues, President

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, October 29, 2015.

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• I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Comfort, Push Yourself, Bigs

  "Dove Award winning singer/songwriter Nichole Nordeman talks about life away from full-time music and writing songs for 'The Story'". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Government, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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