Pushing Quotes - Page 36

• Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Moving, Rainbow, Gold

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• If you have no doubt in what you are about to do, you are not pushing yourself hard enough.

  Silvio Micali

  Doubt, Push Yourself, Enough

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• Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

  Heraclitus

  Kings, Children, Moving

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• I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.

  Mariah Carey

  Fighting, Rocks, Perfect

  The Interview magazine, www.irishexaminer.com.

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• Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Writing, Two, Risk

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• To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

  Rania Attieh

  Unique, Race, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This means funding research not only on drugs but also on areas like life-style changes, even if the profit potential is lower for Big Pharma as you cannot sell that change as you can sell a medicine.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mean, Medicine, Drug

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

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• I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Country, Media, Creative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

  Coleman Barks

  Distance, Going Away, Pushing Away

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• Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Thinking, Trying

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• Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

  Holland Cotter

  Art, Personality, Belief

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• In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.

  Chris Paine

  Marketing, Hell, Prius

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  Military, Blow, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I believe that God protected me. I've experienced many miracles. One day, my father was arrested as I stood nearby on the street. A total stranger who was pushing a baby carriage took my hand and put it on the handle of the carriage, as if I were her child. As soon as it was safe for me, she let me walk home.

  Charlotte Knobloch

  Baby, Children, Father

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• If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward.

  Ronda Rousey

  Challenges, Full Potential, Bars

  Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

  Howard Sasportas

  House, Denial, Way

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• By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.

  Christopher Atkins

  People

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• If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative.... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else.

  April Bloomfield

  Jobs, Hard Work, Passion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• So, you just have to keep pushing yourself with regards to the choices you make, to make sure they're very different from one another, I suppose. I don't know. I don't have any answer for any of that. I can't help but just say yes to lots of work that comes my way because I'm so relieved and so desperately excited and pleased that anyone could possibly offer me any work anyway.

  Dominic Cooper

  Choices, Different, Answers

  "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

  Felicity Jones

  Bored, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.

  Jane McGonigal

  Important, Enough, States

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• The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.

  Ed Crane

  Party, Government, Average

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• The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

  Adam Rifkin

  Cat, Reset Button, Buttons

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• When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

  Sissy Spacek

  Rewards, Testing

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