Pushing Quotes - Page 11

• It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

  Cheryl Lynn

  School, College, Years

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• [VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

  David Hare

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.

  Caridad Svich

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

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• We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

  Karen Traviss

  Odds, Might, Matter

  Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.165, Del Rey

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• If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?  Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love?  If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

  Francis Chan

  Calling, Earth, His Love

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.63, David C Cook

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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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• Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

  Benjamin Carson

  Bully, Pushing Boundaries, Resistance

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• Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous flow, the elasticity of the gas pushing its particles into space will continuously push the cask itself. The result will a continuous change in the motion of the cask. Given a sufficient number of taps (say, six), we would be able to regulate the outflow of the gas as we liked and the cask (or sphere) would describe any curved line in accordance with any law of velocities.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Law, Numbers, Space

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• If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Fate, People

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.

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• See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Adventure, Giants

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 06, 2014

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• And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.

  Lauren Berlant

  Tired, Way, Rooms

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• This is what we’ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win.

  Max Keiser

  Winning, Waiting, Moments

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• Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.

  Hayley Williams

  Workout, Tired, Nuts

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• One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

  Patrick Stump

  Fall, Boys, Trying

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• Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

  LeCrae

  People, Life Is Like, Buttons

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• The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Book, Fall

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• When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Creating Things, Investing

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• I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  People, Interesting, Limits

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• It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.

  Alan Guth

  Thinking, Ideas, Needs

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• I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

  Major Owens

  Technology, Years, Two

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• You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

  Kenny Wormald

  Long, Want

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• I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Monday, Morning

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Men, Hands, Land

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.23, Island Press

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• Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Creativity, Pushing Through

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• It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.

  Dick Vermeil

  Regret, Play, Safe

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