Push Yourself Quotes - Page 5

• When you do hit the gym, you should push yourself. This is what makes fitness phenomena so interesting.

  Jillian Michaels

  Interesting, Should, Gym

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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

  Tori Amos

  People, Pushing, People In Your Life

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• Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Maturity, People, Doe

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• Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

  Eric Zorn

  Mediocrity, Pushing, Tickets

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• What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Mean

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• Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Bottom

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• I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

  Carol Leifer

  Thinking, Self, Starting Out

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

  Joel Stein

  People, Marketing, Networking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

  Burt Bacharach

  Inspiration, Writing Songs, May

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• There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.

  Rankin

  Photography, Stars, People

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• Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Crazy, Alive

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• As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

  Matthew Lewis

  Drama, Actors, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

  Tony La Russa

  Basketball, Opportunity, Over You

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• As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Writing, Challenges

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.199, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.

  Terry Crews

  Hurt, School, Opportunity

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

  Nicole Kidman

  Jobs, Thinking, Looks

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 26, 2016

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• Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Pushing, Failing

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• Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

  David Cone

  Hurt, Thinking, Player

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• I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

  Diane Kruger

  Thinking, Giving, Bored

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• 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

  Soccer, Stars, Player

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pride, Luxury, Knowing

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• You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Upset, World, Realizing

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• When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  May, Limits, Uncomfortable

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• Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, Useless, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Graduation, Moving, Fall

  Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement address at Harvard University, Сambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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