Pushing Quotes - Page 31

• I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Taken, Years

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• The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both-by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Years, Two

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• Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Rich Poor

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• You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Gone, Slipping

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• After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

  Tony La Russa

  Basketball, Opportunity, Over You

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• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Couple, Moving

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• If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Jobs, Risk, Technique

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• We have the misconception that competitiveness means winning at all costs, but that's not what competition is. Competition is just doing your best and not giving up. We all face a moment in a race or in a competition in which we want to give up. We can either give in and not keep pushing, or we can charge forward and work through it.

  Lisa Rainsberger

  Softball, Sports, Giving Up

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• I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Destiny, Looks, Turns

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• The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.

  Franz Josef Radermacher

  Humanity, Essentials, Impossible Becomes Possible

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• I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.

  Mike Matheny

  Life, Motivational, Baseball

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• You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

  John Poindexter

  Outcomes, Enough, Accepting

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• He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top.

  Richard Winger

  Revenge, Feel Good, Littles

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• Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not step forward and greet it.

  Joan Halifax

  Spiritual, Moving, Why Not

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• The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Ignorance, Issues

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Over the years, I have pushed myself mentally and I have pushed myself physically. A lot of people say, 'John Havlicek never gets tired.' Well, I get tired. It's just a matter of pushing myself. I say to myself, 'He's as tired as I am; who's going to win this mental battle?' It's just a matter of mental toughness.

  John Havlicek

  Tired, Wrestling, Winning

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• When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got

  Christina Aguilera

  Crazy, Rain, Eye

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• Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Crazy, Alive

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• I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down before, not knowing what's around the corner and then seeing a landscape that is so extraordinarily beautiful and complex, being part of the community that is driving the boundaries of knowledge and giving us insight into the amazing process of life.

  Suzanne Cory

  Beautiful, Motivation, Adventure

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• There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

  Justin Theroux

  Dream, Giving, Why Things Happen

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• I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

  Kimbra

  Artist, Sound, Albums

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• Growth only really comes at the point of resis­tance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our lim­its, is a mus­cle that can be cul­ti­vated like any other - incrementally.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Hurt, Growth, Moments

  "Learning about Learning". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, sharpbrains.com. January 21, 2009.

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• I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

  Bill Budge

  Coders

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