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• I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

  Jim Capaldi

  Creativity, Pushing Boundaries, Boundaries

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• It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

  Amy Purdy

  Borders, Might, Amazing Places

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• Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

  Eric Zorn

  Mediocrity, Tickets, Fear Of Failure

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• I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price.

  Flo Hyman

  Sports, Pain, War

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• So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned on inciting the American public against Iraq and pushing them to accept the American administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli, as if it were the solution or the necessary rescue that would allow American citizens to live in security and stability, after what they had gone through in the September 11 attacks.

  Naji Sabri

  Lying, Iraq, Long

  "Saddam's letter to U.N. says U.S. wants oil". www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  Ikue Mori

  Thinking, Play, Buttons

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• Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Animal, Needs, Want

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• Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they weren’t in the mood. Always pushing, practicing, working, and improvingYes it takes thousands of hours of practice, but that’s good news! It’s a clear path and it’s under your control.

  Derek Sivers

  Years, Practice, News

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• When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Sandwiches, World

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• Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

  Caprice Crane

  Dating, Looks, Cafeteria

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• So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Years, October, Reform

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• There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

  James L. Barksdale

  Past, Pushing Through, Answers

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• I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Never Quit, Arizona

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Mean, Opening Up, Editors

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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• If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough.  It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

  Dean Karnazes

  Hurt, Effort, Hell

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.21, Penguin

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• This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

  George Matthew Adams

  Life, Pain, Imagination

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• In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Humanity, Extinction, Busy

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black

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• We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

  Shirley Williams

  Running, Teacher, Children

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• If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Athlete, Filling Up, Years

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• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Smile, Phones, Miracle

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• Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

  John Goodman

  Children, Years, Reform

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• Five Truths
  about
  Fear Truth
  1. The fear
  will never
  go away as
  long as I continue
  to grow. Truth 2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth 3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it. Truth 4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else. Truth 5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

  Susan Jeffers

  Feel Better, Pushing Through, Long

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• Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dirty, Noses, Firsts

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• If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ...
  It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Too Much, Praying, Sin

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• Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Doe

  Chogyam Trungpa (1991). “The Heart of the Buddha”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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