Pushing Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Responsibility, Animal, Treats

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• I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

  Ian Thorpe

  Swimming, Training, Pool

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Positivity

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.58, Canongate Books

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• Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Nature

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• No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Goats, Matter

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.140, A&C Black

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• I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

  Jim Butcher

  Point Break, Ego, Weight

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.170, Penguin

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• There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

  Tony Robbins

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Thinking

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2016

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• Never despair, keep pushing on!

  Thomas Lipton

  Motivational, Regret, Despair

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• I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Winning, Race

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• I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be until you actually do the run. That's one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do-the adventure of it all.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Adventure

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• I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Art, Climbing, Suffering

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• It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Sleep, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

  Susan Orlean

  Running, Writing, Mind

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

  Robin Williams

  Block, Squares, One Day

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• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  Warren Beatty

  Issues, Engagement, Vote

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• Every day you say 'No' to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months

  Eric Thomas

  Dream, Pushing Back, Might

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• Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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• Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.

  Curtis Mayfield

  Dream, Remember, Schemes

  Song: Move on Up, Album: Curtis, 1970

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• I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing, and seeing how far I can go.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Challenges, Challenging Myself, Seeing

  "Exclusive: Taraji P. Henson Talks PERSON OF INTEREST and LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Thinking, Guy, Mind

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• We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Failing, Afraid To Fail

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• I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

  Louis L'Amour

  Eggs, Long, Justice

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• We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

  Katherine Dunham

  Beautiful, Justice, Black

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• We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Love, Entry, Dies

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