Pushing Quotes

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

True, Stay, Style

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Descartes

Keep, Mistake, Kept

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington

Strength, Down, Two

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley

Faith, Keep, While

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
Lou Reed

Two, Three, Fine

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards

Music, Good, Death

I like pushing boundaries.
Lady Gaga

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.
Gordon Ramsay

Yourself, Wanted, Winner

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

Joy, Liberty, Secret

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.
Jerry Saltz

Long, Bored, Leaving

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
Tori Amos

Life, Yourself, Push

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden

Write, Poet, Bomb

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
Tim Burton

Real, Far, Making

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
Louis C. K.

Trying, Find, Else

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.
David Cameron

Single, Free, Europe

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
Glenn Beck

Justice, Find, Another

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
Adam Lambert

Everybody, Sexuality, Minute

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
Richard Branson

Strong, Whatever, Once

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Thomas R. Dewar

Success, Women, Road

One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
Tony Campolo

Money, Hate, Serious

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
Adam Clayton

Friendship, Age, Loyalty

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

Good, Hard, Humility

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.
Peter Singer

Strong, Real, Picture

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
James Taylor

Around, Surprises

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
Ricky Williams

Life, Down, Soul

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
Haile Gebrselassie

Time, Crazy, Win

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

Respect, Human, Treat

I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.
Jennifer Lopez

Pretty, Tough, Son

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

Yourself, Stress, Between

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