Push Quotes

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

'Sweet Genius'' viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.