Pushing Quotes - Page 37

• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Running, Perseverance, Healing

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• We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Goal, Upset

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• We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Needs, Enjoy

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• I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Animal, Treats

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• Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Hurt, Hangover, Holiday

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• I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

  Ian Thorpe

  Swimming, Training, Pool

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

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• Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspiration, Dark, Light

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• What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

  Howard Zinn

  What Matters, White, House

  "The Israel Lobby, the Syrian War and the Meaning of Empire" by Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2016.

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• Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Real, Lying, Doors

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• Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Sleep, Talking

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.193, Broadview Press

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• Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Silence, Buttons, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.164, A&C Black

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• The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.

  Joanna Macy

  Flower, Emotional, Psychics

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• You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Two, Issues

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• ..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, People, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Mean, Trouble

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Positivity

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.58, Canongate Books

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• Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Nature

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• No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Goats, Matter

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.140, A&C Black

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• I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

  Jim Butcher

  Point Break, Ego, Weight

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.170, Penguin

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• Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don’t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Baby, Self Confidence, Thinking

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• „Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.

  Richelle Mead

  Glasses, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Writing, Humility

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.

  Abbi Glines

  Important, Mouths, Want

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Stories, Telling Stories

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

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• I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Heart, Pushing It, Tongue

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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