Pushing Quotes - Page 28

• I like challenges in life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone.

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Comfort, Zone

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me in a certain way, in my mind, it means they don't love me or they don't respect me. Bringing awareness to the beliefs that are underneath the attachment and bringing awareness to the way my body and heart are tightening, helps me wake up and re-inhabit a larger space of being. Holding on and pushing away might be going on but I'm freer to respond in a healthy way.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Mean, Attachment

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think that might also be part of the life of a creative person - those sort of ups and downs and security and insecurity. It's just part of the lot in life when you're pushing yourself and hoping to always keep growing and expanding. It's emotionally tricky.

  Emma Stone

  Thinking, Creative, Insecurity

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

  Jessica Chastain

  Males, Lobbyists, Agendas

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you see what has happened in America, driving religion, driving believers from the public square, there is a clear connection to the challenges we have in this country morally, economically, militarily. It goes back to pushing biblical values out of the public square.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Biblical, Squares

  Source: stream.org

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• You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Country, School, Successful

  Source: thetartan.org

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• When you're on the bus or subway or in your car, why busy your mind with all the garbage of advertisements? Why fill your mind with television and radio? Somehow you have to decide what your mind will receive. I don't mean you shouldn't ever go to movies or watch television, but control what enters your mind and heart. It's not just a question of pushing bad things out but also a question of holding on to something really good.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Mean, Car

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain.

  Kofi Annan

  Running, Tired, Years

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• In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their event. The option to drop out of a race that is going badly does not exist for a climber halfway up a big route, and may entail more risk than pushing on. A team of volunteers will not be waiting with warm blankets and hot food at the next bivy ledge. When you reach the summit, having overcome the challenges that inspired you for months or years, you are not at the finish line. The race is not over. You can't relax and let your guard down like a normal athlete.

  Steve House

  Sports, Team, Struggle

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Envelopes, Sake, Pushing The Envelope

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Issues, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Drama, Independent, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

  Kristen Stewart

  Appreciate, Different, Limits

  "Kristen Stewart Says She's a 'Miserable [C-Word]'". Marie Claire U.K. Interview, www.eonline.com. October 09, 2012.

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• I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

  James Taylor

  Thinking, People, Surprise

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

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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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• I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Pushing Boundaries, Rough, Mcqueen

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• Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

  Ai Weiwei

  Philosophy, Stronger, Landscape

  "Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2008.

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• It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

  Ricky Williams

  Soul, Whispering, Whole Life

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• I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?

  Kate Winslet

  Mean, Dresses, Now Or Never

  "Kate Winslet Looks Ahead" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 8, 2009.

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• The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.

  Louise Erdrich

  Order, Brain, Trying

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• Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Gun, Mouths

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

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• Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Failing, Push Yourself

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• And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Eye, Men

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• ...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Morning, Memories

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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