Quotes About Pushing

When you aspire to inspire before you expire, you conspire to inspire even after you pause to respire. Keep pushing it!

It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove . Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.

When you push people where they don't want to be pushed, you will face even more resistance.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

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.

We must stop pulling ourselves and start pushing ourselves towards success. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that gets us there.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

what's fate to you, opal? she asks. opal leans back, too. oh, lots of things. lots and lots of things all pushed up against each other that makes something else happen. so much pushing it just can't happen any other way - unless you push back to make it not.

The creative impulse, to me, is a form of bafflement, and often feels dissonant and unsettling. It chips away at your own cherished truths about things, pushes against your own sense of what is acceptable. It's the guiding force that leads you to where it wants to go. It's not the other way around. You're not leading it.

She had dreamt of eagles, she said, like to the eagles of Gwynedd, nesting over Lindum, with one eagle pushing its brother from the nest.

Oh hell. If I could just find a balance between holding back too much and pushing, poaching.

There was some problem with the regular elevators as some gentleman in a suit and tie was learning. He was poking the up button with the conviction that if he pushed it enough times the out of order sign would magically change to read Fixed.

People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect.

ambition meant never being satisfied, to be always hungering for something more, constantly pushing forward because no success could ever be big enough to quell the need for new and even bigger successes,

Such was life in France. People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect.

We must use this election as a pushing off point, a fulcrum to channel our individual and societal resiliency.