Pushing Quotes - Page 10

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

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

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

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.

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.

I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my training, making sure I warm up and warm down before everything and not pushing myself too stupidly.

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are people who are pushing the edge of hope, who are stepping into the unknown and taking risks, because that will then enable others to do the same.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

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.

The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.

One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.

I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.

We Americans are focused on Russia`s attacks with our electoral system and we`re consumed with that. But Russia is pushing against the West generally.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.