Pushing Quotes - Page 10

• Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

  Robert Quillen

  Humorous, Loss, Exercise

  "The Sage of Fountain Inn" by Alexander Woollcott in Cosmopolitan magazine, September 1933.

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• Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break.

  Drake

  Love, Relationship, Broken Heart

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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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• Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Simple, Desire

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• What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

  Barack Obama

  Use, Fuel, Fossils

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

  Philip French

  Life, Death, Suicide

  "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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• If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.

  Eduard Suess

  Science, Space, Clouds

  "The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)" by Eduard Suess, Clarendon Press, (p. 1), 1904.

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• The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Engineering, Ideas

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily.

  Thom Yorke

  Crazy, Hands, Together

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• I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Depression, Crush, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Life, Good Morning, Miracle

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• I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

  Tony Fadell

  Feelings, Doubt, Trying

  "iPod Creator Tony Fadell: Here's How You Build And Ship World-Class Products" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.

  Tariq al-Hashimi

  Country, Als, Dimensions

  "Iraqi vice president predicts return to sectarian violence" by Mohammed Tawfeeq, Frederik Pleitgen, www.cnn.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

  Henry Cavill

  Two, Training, Looks

  "Superman's Henry Cavill Talks Eating 5,000 Calories A Day". Total Film Magazine Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 04, 2011.

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• I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

  Eva Longoria

  Presses

  "Eva Longoria Dating Ernesto Arguello" by Monica Rizzo, people.com. July 4, 2013.

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• You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail!

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Vision, Failing

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• People who know my stage act know it's nothing but pushing boundaries.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  People, Pushing Boundaries, Stage

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• I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.

  Anthony Perkins

  Dad, Lines, Today

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• As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

  Mary Hart

  Journalist

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• Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

  Jane Lynch

  Art, Pushing Boundaries, Results

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• I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

  Travis Barker

  Want, Limits, Drummer

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• What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

  Matt Long

  Thinking, Long, Point Break

  Matt Long, Charlie Butler (2010). “The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete”, p.179, Rodale

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• I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Songwriters

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• Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward.

  Rodney Mullen

  Reading, Fire, Self

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• That's the thing about stage: It's something you can't find anywhere else. It's a two-and-a-half, three-hour experience, and it's a real relationship. You're sending out energy from the stage, but the audience is giving you back so much also, so that's also lifting you and pushing you forward as you're performing and giving you so much energy. You can't find it anywhere else, and that's why people get addicted to being on stage, and when they're not on stage are kind of looking for that and constantly searching for it.

  Aaron Tveit

  Real, Two, People

  "Aaron Tveit Goes Undercover On "Graceland" - But He's Not Leaving Broadway Behind". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. August 22, 2013.

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