Pushing Quotes
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
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
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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 -
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.
Karl E. Weick -
I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.
Amy Van Dyken -
I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.
George Clooney -
My wife is been extremely supportive and when doubt creeps in, she's there pushing me along. She's helped me move up here, get all of my furniture and brought all my groceries. That's what marriage is about: supporting each other and helping each other reach our fullest potential.
Eddie George -
It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.
Katherine Reutter
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I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
Michel Gondry -
Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.
Adi Da -
Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women's roles.
Barbara Crampton -
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.
Sarah Dessen -
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
Bernard Berenson
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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 -
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
Paul Keating -
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
Richard N. Haass -
And finally, an intern pushing the metal show box: see the cow, the purple of the hide barely perceptible, blood seeping from the small holes punched by a .22, ears tagged with plastic. Shitting itself, despite the tranquilizers, out of terror at being nearly real.
Ben Lerner -
You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.
Alexander Gustafsson
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I was pushing so hard to try and be happy, try and make people happy, and I was killing myself. I was undernourished, dehydrated and had high blood pressure.
Anita Pointer -
It's only in the act of pushing yourself, challenging yourself to make a contribution to your community, to your family, to your country, that you actually realize your full self, you know?
Eric Greitens -
Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.
Dane Reynolds -
I've spent my whole life pushing sugar. People aren't going to stop eating sugar-we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. When you're with a group of people and you take a bite of a really great dessert, the conversation just stops. We don't want to get rid of those moments.
Emily Luchetti