Push Quotes

• You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.

  

  Amir Mohamed
  • Want
  • Change
  • Push

• There's only so far you can push a horse before it collapses.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Horse
  • Push
  • Collapses

• A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Book
  • Reader
  • Push

• If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Push
  • Exploring
  • Chest

• Such tensions without sense push us to formulate questions of meaning.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Meaning
  • Push
  • Tensions

• You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Limits
  • Push
  • Architect

• You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

  

  William Scott
  • People
  • Think
  • Push

• Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.

  

  Betsy Lerner
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Dreams

• When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Fight
  • Victory
  • motivation

• Now that I was surrounded by admiration, I could admit without uneasiness that talking to her incited ideas, pushed me to make connections between distant things. In those years of being neighbors, I on the floor above, she below, it often happened. A slight push was enough and the seemingly empty mind discovered that it was full and lively. I attributed to her a sort of farsightedness, as I had all our lives, and I found nothing wrong with it. I said to myself that to be adult was to recognize that I needed her impulses. If once I had hidden, even from myself, that spark she induced in me, now I was proud of it, I had even written about it somewhere. I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She instead didn’t want to be her, so she couldn’t do the same. That was the underlying cause of the illness that she called “dissolving boundaries.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Proud
  • Ideas
  • Recognize

• Sometimes in your life you need a little bit of a push.

  

  Alessandra Mastronardi
  • Life
  • Need
  • Push

• There's this wave of new pop-punk bands that has come out that's bigger than ever. I'm really glad that we got to be a part of helping push that forward, if we did at all. I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Bands
  • Glad
  • Push

• Push means you see the wreck, loose means you don't see the wreck.

  

  Neil Bonnett
  • See
  • Push
  • Wreck

• I like to be nervous, as I push myself harder.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Nervous
  • Push

• This is about as distasteful a loss as I can remember, and it's baffling. After Sunday's game, I thought a good positive push was going to take place. It's the mystery of coaching.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Coaching

• How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Push
  • Rope
  • Influencers

• FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

  

  Paul Scheer
  • Give
  • Push
  • Comedies

• To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Respect
  • Artists
  • My Career

• By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

  

  Andrew Agnew
  • See
  • Push
  • Firing

• That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Say
  • Punishment
  • Push

• I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.

  

  Zazie Beetz
  • Myself
  • Anxiety
  • Push

• Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Book
  • Sex
  • Need

• Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Society
  • Search
  • Create

• Always push beyond what you can do.

  

  Nonito Donaire
  • Push
  • Beyond
  • Can Do

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