Pushing Quotes - Page 35

• A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

  George Mikes

  Behaviour, Crowds, Language

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• There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Years, Two, People

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• I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Stars, Needs, Records

  "Peace Go With You, Brother: Meshell Ndegeocello Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2011.

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• And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Goal, Gold, Want

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• We're playing those mind games together
  Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
  Playing the mind guerrilla.

  John Lennon

  Games, Insanity, Mind

  "Song: 'Mind Games'". 1973.

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• I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.

  Guy Oseary

  College, Years, People

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• You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Push Yourself, Achieve

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• I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

  William Petersen

  Wall, Years, Guy

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• Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

  Kid Koala

  Trying Different Things, Littles, Pushing It

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• I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.

  Will Smith

  Spiritual, Emotional, Intellectual

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

  James Elkins

  Memories, Artist, Breathing

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge

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• I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

  Chris Hayes

  Basketball, Thinking, Views

  "Chris Hayes: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. March 27, 2013.

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• There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

  Ann Romney

  Next Day, People, Example

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• Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Drama, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.147, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Technology and the pace of change in media is pushing us into an uncomfortable area The media have perhaps become more cavalier towards pushing confidential information.

  Jim Michaels

  Technology, Media, Information

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• We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.

  Donald A. Norman

  Powerful, Technology, Way

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Donald A. Norman, Ch. 10, 1998.

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• Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Fun, Racing, Progress

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 75), 1964.

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• Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Passion, Two

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• There is a sense that everything should be easy, but easy decisions are the ones we should be scared of because if they're easy then we're probably being sold something. This is why I'm worried about "nudge" - it's pushing people in the direction of what you think they should be doing. Easy decisions are dangerous ones.

  Nick Harkaway

  Thinking, People, Decision

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

  Ellen Willis

  Art, Demand, Messages

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.

  Lawrence Lessig

  War, Creativity, People

  WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February, 2011.

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• Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Running, People, Stories

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• If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

  Jon Gruden

  Thinking, Offers, Ifs

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• The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Bad Day, Confusion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 21, 2015

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• Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make excuses to stay stuck in drama. I choose not to step into a web of drama that I can't get out of.

  Bindu

  Pain, Hate, Drama

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