Pushing Quotes - Page 40

• We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

  Katherine Dunham

  Beautiful, Justice, Black

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• We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Love, Entry, Dies

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• On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn't feel like he's pushing you along with him or dragging you along with him. It's like two converging currents in a river, where those currents converge, there is a point where there is no movement, no energy; and that's what you're thinking when you're on the back of a horse.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Two

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• I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

  Kenny Wormald

  Learning Something New, Elements, Steps

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• Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

  Steven Yeun

  Basketball, People, Boxing

  "Q&A – Steven Yeun (Glenn)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."

  Jen Kirkman

  Hands, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

  Nia Long

  Believe, Kids, Night

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

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• As for kids who are struggling personally, ignore the bullies! Who cares what they think? A lot of the time, they're not thinking, so you shouldn't take their words to heart. Ignore, ignore, ignore, and keep pushing forward.

  Nolan Gould

  Struggle, Heart, Kids

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• Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve “it”, at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

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• Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

  Bela Karolyi

  Powerful, Struggle, Challenges

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• Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.

  Rian Johnson

  Real, Thinking, Different

  "Rian Johnson Talks “Looper”, Bruce Willis' Voiceover, And 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. January 9.

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• Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

  Peter Woo

  Senior, Decision, Able

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• You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

  Jennifer Niven

  Inspiration, Camels, Needs

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.106, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

  David Lilienthal

  Men, Ideas, Boots

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• Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

  Matt Kemp

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

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• It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

  Christine Lagarde

  Jobs, Boys, Men

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

  George Lucas

  Envelopes, Evolution, Resources

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• Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Society, Encounters

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Heart, Writing, Issues

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• The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.

  Jude Law

  Years, Law, Names

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

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• Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.

  Amy Poehler

  Good Night, Queens, Drama

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• I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

  David Stern

  Decision, Events, Pushing Forward

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  Elizabeth Barton

  Quilts, Color, Issues

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• The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.

  Irene Khan

  Kings, Military, Army

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