Pushing Quotes - Page 5

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

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.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

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

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day.

I like pushing boundaries.

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.