Top 729 Push Quotes

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

― A. Bartlett Giamatti

“One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.”

― Aaron McGruder

“I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.”

― Aaron Rodgers

“My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.”

― Aarti Mann

“When you’re a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you’re always kind of seeing how far you can push things.”

― Aasif Mandvi

“What’s great about ‘The Daily Show’ is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn’t do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.”

― Aasif Mandvi

“I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I’m not scared to fail.”

― Abby Wambach

“When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.”

― Abdullah II of Jordan

“Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it’s paid off.”

― Adam Peaty

“I’m just one of those people that, if there’s a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.”

― Adam Rippon

“Because of the Internet, we’re all such authorities on every subject and can chat about all sorts of things. But when push comes to shove, when our ideas are put to the test, that’s when we find out who we really are.”

― Adeel Akhtar

“We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.”

― Adi Godrej

“I want somebody to push me and grill me and extract a performance out of me which nobody expects.”

― Aditi Rao Hydari

“A lot of the qualities in ‘Killing and Dying’ is sort of a response to work I’d done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.”

― Adrian Tomine

“My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.”

― Adriane Lenox

“It’s not a coincidence that the Bible starts with Genesis. Most people really want to know where we came from and where everything around us came from. I like to strongly push the scientific answer. We have evidence. We no longer have to rely on stories we were told when we were young.”

― Alan Guth

“You’re creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That’s the same whether it’s for stage or film or television or whatever.”

― Alan Menken

“Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.”

― Alan Shepard

“My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.”

― Alanis Morissette

“In Combate, we will push you. If you come to win, you come to prove that you belong in the sport; then, you belong in this company.”

― Alberto Del Rio

“I guess I’ve always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.”

― Alessandro Nivola

“There’s a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.”

― Alex Honnold

“There’s a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we’ll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity – are frankly better cities to live in – than if we settle for the status quo.”

― Alex Steffen

“At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing – aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn’t in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.”

― Alexander Chee

“As a designer, you’ve always got to push yourself forward; you’ve always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That’s what I do.”

― Alexander McQueen

“That’s how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I’ll tell them when it’s too much. It’s always easier to bring it back then to push it further.”

― Alexander Payne

“I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.”

― Alfie Allen

“Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.”

― Alfred Hitchcock

“Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.”

― Alice Waters

“I love to see how far you’re able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.”

― Alicia Vikander

“I take issue with those who criticize ‘The Biggest Loser’ for pushing contestants too hard. The whole point is to push them hard. Otherwise, there’s no change.”

― Alison Sweeney

“Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.”

― Alistair Brownlee

“The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.”

― Allyson Schwartz

“I’ll know when to retire when I don’t want to push myself anymore.”

― Alun Wyn Jones

“As a performer, I want to push my boundaries and try different roles.”

― Amy Jackson

“The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by the Right Wing, which has always had a great deal of disdain for a system that forces them to pay taxes toward some other kid’s non-religious, science-based education.”

― Ana Kasparian

“I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It’s about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He’s always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.”

― Ana Ortiz

“You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.”

― Andrew Carnegie

“Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.”

― Andrew Carnegie

“When I go on the set, I’m so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood – my mood and the actors’ mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don’t want to lose the mood.”

― Andrew Lau

“When I’m in the gym, I always try and pair a push and a pull motion. I’ll then follow that with a lot of shoulder stability work.”

― Andrew Luck

“Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.”

― Andrew Weil

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

― Ann Bancroft

“To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.”

― Ann Bancroft

“You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.”

― Ann Romney

“I’m really cocky. Or – I’ve been thinking about this word a lot – I’m ‘mischievous,’ and I want to make light of things and push the boundaries.”

― Annabelle Wallis

“Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.”

― Annalee Newitz

“There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don’t think I can imitate it, but there’s a density to it that I think I’m always trying to push towards in English.”

― Anne Carson

“You’ve got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way.”

― Anthony Levandowski

“In all circumstances in the world – even the most difficult circumstances – we need to push for dialogue.”

― Antonio Guterres

“All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better.”

― Ari Graynor

“I’ve done a couple of songs which are not up to the mark. So, mentally, I’ve set a goal that I should be more dynamic and try and push myself as much as I can.”

― Arijit Singh

“We want to win and make a push.”

― Asdrubal Cabrera

“My style is chic, streamlined and original. I don’t like to wear the same things as other people – I push boundaries. Growing up, I was really excited about costumes.”

― Ashley Leggat

“I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.”

― Ashlyn Harris

“What you do is you’re using the other competitors to push yourself, because it’s so hard to push yourself.”

― Ashton Eaton

“After ‘Punk’d,’ my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push.”

― Ashton Kutcher

“So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It’s going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don’t anticipate it coming down rapidly.”

― Austan Goolsbee

“I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.”

― Axl Rose

“My theory is, independent movies only work if you’re willing to push the material and do something different.”

― Balthazar Getty

“The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.”

― Barack Obama

“Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.”

― Bear Grylls

“When ‘Game Of Thrones’ came out, lots of interviews were coming in, and people asking me to do certain things which would push me out there. Like this whole Instagram and Twitter thing – getting more followers doesn’t bother me at all.”

― Bella Ramsey

“We’ve turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven’t done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor’s Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.”

― Ben Foster

“It’s like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.”

― Ben Gibbard

“You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.”

― Ben Gibbard

“I want to say that our shows are safer-spaces shows. Don’t push anyone or affect anyone’s space.”

― Ben Hopkins

“There is a theory that China will tend to push, and if you bend, they will push some more.”

― Benigno Aquino III

“There’s this wave of new pop-punk bands that has come out that’s bigger than ever. I’m really glad that we got to be a part of helping push that forward, if we did at all. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”

― Benji Madden

“Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.”

― Bennett Miller

“The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.”

― Beth Gibbons

“I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.”

― Bhumi Pednekar

“Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N’ Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A…. push shuffle and anything will come on.”

― Big Boi

“I always wanted to prove myself. I think I naturally can’t help but want to do something and push the boundaries.”

― Big K.R.I.T.

“As far as I’m concerned, the more power we push back to the patient, the individual, the American citizen, the more responsive the system is to her needs. ‘Obamacare,is responsive’ is like a hammer is responsive to a piece of glass.”

― Bill Cassidy

“I was always very detail-oriented, and in the time I spent in different roles – the elected official, the campaign manager – I had a tendency to want to push the creation of the product and really work on the critical path that would get to product.”

― Bill de Blasio

“I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.”

― Bill Rancic

“There are good reasons to push for more Indigenous Labor MPs, not just on equity but also for what they can contribute to Labor.”

― Bill Shorten

“I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.”

― Billy Corgan

“In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.”

― Bjorn Ulvaeus

“The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of ice on ourselves, and embrace new ways of relating to our environment.”

― Blase J. Cupich

“I’m hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.”

― Bob Odenkirk

“There’s only so far you can push a man.”

― Bobby Lashley

“I think I’m a living embodiment of, ‘Don’t try to push me around or squash me,’ whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.”

― Bonnie Raitt

“I talk about Hulk Hogan being in my corner back in the day… Back in the day, if it wasn’t for Hulk Hogan, I don’t know if Booker T and Stevie Ray would’ve gotten the push that we got.”

― Booker T

“People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.”

― Bradley Wiggins

“And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.”

― Brandi Chastain

“Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you’ll learn, you’ll want more information, you’ll push yourself.”

― Brandi Chastain

“Like a lot of business owners out there, I don’t desire to face the continual flogging from government regulators who push burdensome and confusing state tax and employment laws on the business. It creates an unnecessary risk when, as an owner, I can just take it offshore.”

― Brandon Webb

“Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that’s kind of our mentality in that state.”

― Brett Young

“Never assume you can’t do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.”

― Brian Chesky

“You almost can’t avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe.”

― Brian Greene

“To bring out the best in someone, you really have to push them.”

― Brian Ortega

“We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.”

― Brian Schweitzer

“In a collaborator, I always look for someone who’s going to push me a little bit.”

― Brian Stelfreeze

“It matters that we have balance and facts and push people when they need to be pushed so that we can give the accurate, fair, balanced piece to the viewer, and then it’s up to the viewer to be the judge.”

― Brooke Baldwin

“I’ve always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That’s just how I am and it’s worked for me.”

― Bryan Adams

“I’m drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.”

― Bryce Dallas Howard

“We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.”

― Buzz Aldrin

“I haven’t been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.”

― Cameron Diaz

“Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.”

― Camryn Manheim

“I love to push myself.”

― Canelo Alvarez

“I’m the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can’t go on this way anymore, that the reason you’re heavy is because you’re ignoring all the stuff that’s going on inside.”

― Cara Castronuova

“I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.”

― Carine Roitfeld

“What I’ve realized is that we’re our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.”

― Carla Gugino

“There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.”

― Carles Puigdemont

“I like to push the ball down the field when it’s there. There’s also times you just take the underneath one.”

― Carson Wentz

“As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don’t push the boundaries, then what’s the point of having it?”

― Casey Neistat

“Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.”

― Catherine Deneuve

“I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.”

― Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Seek out a personal coach or mentor in the workplace. He/she should push you when you need it by encouraging and motivating you. Don’t be afraid of their honesty.”

― Cathy Engelbert

“We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you’re real lucky, you might push that to 27 or 28.”

― Chael Sonnen

“I just need to take better care of myself. I try to push it as far as I can.”

― Chance The Rapper

“Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously mistaken.”

― Charles Michel

“If at the end of May we don’t, we’ll reform, regroup, decide how we’re going to go about it, but if the task force can’t come up with the bill, I’m going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we’ve been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.”

― Charlie Norwood

“To put it bluntly, the push for ‘college for all’ sets up students to fail.”

― Charlie Sykes

“If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you’re going to have to push it, and somebody’s going to push you to get there. End of story.”

― Charlie Trotter

“I’ve always had to train harder than others to get the oxygen to my muscles because of my lung capacity. I have to push myself past the point of being comfortable.”

― Charlie White

“I guess because I never pictured myself wrestling, I find myself wanting to push every limit possible in this industry.”

― Charlotte Flair

“I think it’s possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“All my favorite bands are the ones that push the limits and boundaries.”

― Chord Overstreet

“I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.”

― Chris Cleave

“Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.”

― Chris Cornell

“Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.”

― Christa McAuliffe

“When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.”

― Christian Cota

“The thing is, if you’re a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs.”

― Christian Siriano

“I have my good and bad days, but when it’s tough I just push through it.”

― Christie Rampone

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

― Christina Aguilera

“I hate working out – I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, ‘I can’t do it!’”

― Christina Aguilera

“Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking ‘no’ for an answer when ‘no’ means New Yorkers aren’t going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.”

― Christine Quinn

“Obama’s ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?”

― Chuck Todd

“I’ve had my ups. I’ve had my downs, but I’ve been able to push through every obstacle that’s been thrown my way.”

― Ciara

“Let’s push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.”

― Cindy Sheehan

“Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren’t meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.”

― Cindy Sherman

“We’re into discovering ourselves as 2NE1. Since all four of us are different, we inspire and push each other.”

― CL

“I like situations that push a character to the edge.”

― Claire Cameron

“Obstruction can be caused by so many factors – perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you’ve got to push through it all if you’re to write, and if you don’t, or can’t, you’re sunk.”

― Claire Messud

“With athletes, it’s never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.”

― Clara Hughes

“Most of my fights, I push the pace. I’m the aggressor.”

― Clay Guida

“In an environment where you’ve got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you’ll be successful is actually much higher.”

― Clayton M. Christensen

“I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.”

― Colton Haynes

“I love working to push the industry forward.”

― Columbus Short

“Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.”

― Condoleezza Rice

“Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.”

― Constantin Stanislavski

“I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.”

― Courtney Barnett

“I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis.”

― Coy Bowles

“I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.”

― Craig Kilborn

“I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.”

― Cyndi Lauper

“Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.”

― D. B. Sweeney

“I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network’s attention – to break through… So maybe you push a little further in the first show.”

― D. B. Sweeney

“You have to identify your shot and be ‘Push your luck’ ready for it.”

― D. B. Sweeney

“With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn’t want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.”

― Dan Hill

“I think we have to acknowledge that the way to get back into the majority into the Congress and pick up seats is to make sure we are a big-tent party and reaching out to people that are moderate and not just push to the left.”

― Dan Lipinski

“As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.”

― Daniel Breaker

“Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.”

― Daniel Humm

“I try not to push veganism specifically. If I’m asked for my advice, I say just eat healthy.”

― Daniel Negreanu

“Many players in the big blind get in trouble by calling pre-flop raises; they try to do too much. They don’t want to get bullied, so they attempt a tricky check-raise bluff or overplay their hands in an ill-advised effort to push back.”

― Daniel Negreanu

“To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.”

― Danny Boyle

“When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.”

― Danny Meyer

“I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.”

― Dave Rowntree

“If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.”

― David Bowie

“When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that’s a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn’t right.”

― David E. Kelley

“I’m trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have a criminal background that are mentally unstable and have a history of domestic violence are no longer able to get a gun.”

― David Hogg

“I’m always trying to push the envelope and go with a different hairstyle that you’re not going to see on anybody else. I have a really good grade of hair, and I can do a lot of different things with it.”

― David Otunga

“Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you’re trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.”

― David Petraeus

“Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?”

― David R. Brower

“We had a pretty good lead, so why push it.”

― David Wells

“I’m big on showing people versatility. I’m constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.”

― Dawn Richard

“You don’t know how far you can go until you push it.”

― Dawn Richard

“I kind of push myself through my words and how I carry myself.”

― DeAngelo Williams

“In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others’ attempts to push them away.”

― Deborah Tannen

“Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.”

― Demi Moore

“In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.”

― Denis Diderot

“I’ve kind of seen that I’m capable to push these guys.”

― Denis Shapovalov

“The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.”

― Denise Dresser

“It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.”

― DeRay Mckesson

“I would love to play roles that continue to challenge and push me in different directions – emotionally, mentally, and physically as well.”

― Diana Silvers

“I’m always inspired to push forward.”

― Dianne Reeves

“For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and bring the content forward. The media, the photos, the videos.”

― Dick Costolo

“I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.”

― Dierks Bentley

“My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.”

― Dimebag Darrell

“I don’t want to push myself and am happy doing one to two films a year.”

― Dimple Kapadia

“Training helps you get physically stronger and a lot of times it helps you push the bar mentally as well.”

― Dinesh Karthik

“Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.”

― Dmitry Medvedev

“People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.”

― Donald Sadoway

“The songwriter mustn’t fall in love with his own song. If it doesn’t belong, he can’t push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it’ll fit in another show.”

― Dorothy Fields

“When you’re 250 pounds, you can push more people around, but you can’t move as fast or jump as high.”

― Draymond Green

“There’s a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there’s no person I’m going to push to the side to get where I’m going. I want to create my own road.”

― Drew Barrymore

“I’m really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it’s kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and to see how far I want to push the elements.”

― Dries van Noten

“For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.”

― Dries van Noten

“I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.”

― Dwayne Johnson

“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn’t hit, he doesn’t run, he doesn’t throw, and he doesn’t catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he’ll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.”

― Earl Weaver

“I think that you have to get out there and get with the folks and push the flesh and be connected to viewers and listeners.”

― Ed Schultz

“I’ve never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.”

― Ed Sheeran

“I’m a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it’s given me help. It’s given me a push, and I’m very proud of my Spanish heritage.”

― Eddie Alvarez

“I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.”

― Eddie Bernice Johnson

“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.”

― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“As the news media eagerly report on polls showing that millennials increasingly reject capitalism, progressives energetically push the Democratic Party to the left.”

― Edward Conard

“In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.”

― Edward Enninful

“One of Pixar’s key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity. It is our primary delivery system for straight talk.”

― Edwin Catmull

“People have always wondered if I’m trying to push the envelope when it comes to my cinema – they keep questioning the visual graphics and the controversial content.”

― Ekta Kapoor

“I’m in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.”

― Ekta Kapoor

“Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters.”

― Elana Meyers

“I truly believe our work is an extension of who we are, and I constantly strive to push myself and my teams.”

― Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

“Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.”

― Elizabeth Edwards

“You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.”

― Elizabeth Warren

“I have a really supportive, great group of friends, and we all push each other. They come to my shows, I go to their premieres; it’s wonderful.”

― Elle King

“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.”

― Ellen Ochoa

“Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.”

― Ellen Stofan

“I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.”

― Elsa Peretti

“I’ve never been truly closeted on the air; it’s just something I never really made a big deal out of because I never felt like I wanted to push an agenda or push it any further than I felt comfortable with.”

― Elvis Duran

“Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it’s been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.”

― Elvis Stojko

“I had so much self doubt in the past, but I’m trying to push myself.”

― Emily Atack

“At ‘Vogue,’ I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.”

― Emily Weiss

“We need to digitize gun-sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun-show loopholes and straw-man purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.”

― Emma Gonzalez

“The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, ‘Don’t go back to war.’ That’s all they said. They didn’t push anything else.”

― Emmanuel Jal

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

― Eric Liu

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

― Erykah Badu

“I always pull over for people who need a push.”

― Esai Morales

“For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.”

― Evan Osnos

“Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It’s all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.”

― Evangeline Lilly

“Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.”

― Evangelos Venizelos

“I’m a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there’s a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.”

― Eve Ensler

“I put the words down and push them a bit.”

― Evelyn Waugh

“I can be very emotional, so when it’s the build-up to a game I enjoy that side of trying to help push the team and get them fired up.”

― Fabian Delph

“’Push back’ is the word; that’s what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it’s dangerous.”

― Fantastic Negrito

“Television has the power to push for change. We need to push it in that direction.”

― Fawad Khan

“I get angry when people push people around.”

― Faye Dunaway

“I’m very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself – and I think that comes from my mother.”

― Felicity Jones

“I think everybody in WWE and NXT want to be involved in WrestleMania. I can huff and puff and push all I want, but that’s something you just can’t rush.”

― Finn Balor

“’The X Factor’ was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn’t have before. It’s a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you’re ready for the industry.”

― Fleur East

“I push myself to the limit.”

― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.”

― Flume

“Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.”

― Frances Beinecke

“Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don’t push and prod people along.”

― Francis Chan

“What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it’s not worth talking about.”

― Francis Spufford

“We’re able to push the envelope with what we’re doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for.”

― Freddie Wong

“I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show… because it’s very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.”

― Freddie Wong

“I push myself to the limit to do what I most like doing, which is playing football.”

― Gabriel Jesus

“If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.”

― Garbine Muguruza

“I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.”

― Gary Burton

“The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.”

― Gary Ross

“I’ve always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I’ve got a few of them. They’re kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better.”

― Gary Rossington

“In academia in general, there’s this push toward using comics as an educational tool.”

― Gene Luen Yang

“I train mainly with guys, and they help to push me.”

― Genzebe Dibaba

“Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it’s a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I’ve tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form.”

― George C. Wolfe

“Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it’s rhythmic control. You’re crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender.”

― George C. Wolfe

“You push the button, we do the rest.”

― George Eastman

“The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.”

― George R. R. Martin

“I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.”

― Georgia Groome

“My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.”

― Ger Duany

“I want to have my career, not sit on the bench. I want to work hard, to push myself. I want to play.”

― Gerard Deulofeu

“Weeks go by, and I don’t paint until finally I can’t stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don’t want to talk about it, because I don’t want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.”

― Gerhard Richter

“If my son wants a boxing career, I won’t stop him, but I definitely won’t push him. It’s bad for a kid to be pressured.”

― Gerry Cooney

“I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.”

― Glen Campbell

“I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.”

― Glenn Hoddle

“I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I’m just adventurous. It’s most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.”

― Gotye

“I always loved the piano because it’s just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.”

― Grace Potter

“Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.”

― Graham Joyce

“Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.”

― Greg Boyle

“Every year, I push myself to do something different – and push the boundaries a little bit more.”

― Gretchen Bleiler

“You always have to be ready. When I’m washing dishes, I have to have a towel ready so I can dry my hands and push the record button on my phone.”

― Gretchen Parlato

“There’s a line you have when you’re racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That’s what we say.”

― Guy Martin

“The idea for the ‘Speed’ series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.”

― Guy Martin

“My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.”

― Hakeem Jeffries

“Americans are pretty next level with snowboarding. We have the best training facilities, the best coaches that push us to the next level.”

― Hannah Teter

“To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“Chips will continue to shrink, of course. We, along with other semiconductor companies, are continuing to push toward the next goal of 10 nm, but going beyond 10 nm will require the development of new technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes that are still being perfected.”

― Henry Samueli

“I’m drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.”

― Hilary Duff

“You don’t need to push your beliefs onto other people!”

― Hilary Duff

“Whenever you get Brianna Decker on the ice, and Emily Field and Amanda Pelkey, people are just going to go fast and push the pace.”

― Hilary Knight

“I had been interested in trying acting, and, like, I went to school with actors and whatnot, and I was interested in the craft but didn’t really push myself to do it.”

― Hunter Schafer

“When there’s no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.”

― Ibrahim Hooper

“I’ve always been DJing; it’s just I’m making more of a push for it, making it more public.”

― Idris Elba

“I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.”

― Im Dong-Hyun

“Truth is, none of us professional athletes are ever 100 percent healthy. We just decide what we’re going to tape up and push through without making it worse.”

― Iman Shumpert

“I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.”

― Ina May Gaskin

“Any time I push through a fear, I’m proud of that.”

― Inbar Lavi

“I’m the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.”

― Irvine Welsh

“The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.”

― Irving Babbitt

“I thrive on obstacles. If I’m told that it can’t be told, then I push harder.”

― Issa Rae

“By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.”

― J. B. Pritzker

“I was not guaranteed a starting place at Everton. I had a lot of injuries. Darron Gibson and Marouane Fellaini were in form, so it was a push for me to get in that side.”

― Jack Rodwell

“Lobbying has become a term of reproach, as if it were improper to push for a particular belief. This has happened because of paid lobbyists whose opinions are for hire and the fear that decision-makers, whether politicians or officials, are susceptible to their charms and wiles. This has tarred entirely proper lobbying with the same brush.”

― Jacob Rees-Mogg

“We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in ‘Brothers.’ We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.”

― Jacqueline Fernandez

“I like to push my body to the limits.”

― Jake Paul

“Every day, I’m trying to push the boundaries creatively, and sometimes it does push the boundary too far, and that’s what I had to learn.”

― Jake Paul

“I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.”

― James L. Brooks

“We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.”

― James Nesbitt

“It’s true I play a little deeper for Real Madrid. I can push a little further forward for Colombia.”

― James Rodriguez

“Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.”

― James Surowiecki

“With ‘Insidious 2,’ I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.”

― James Wan

“The ‘Saw’ sequels went in a direction I wouldn’t have gone in. With ‘Insidious 2,’ I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.”

― James Wan

“We’ve done a zombie episode – only one – and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren’t zombies out there for real, but there’s a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We’ve tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that.”

― Jamie Hyneman

“I will continue to push for solutions to eliminate reliance on hired guns to provide security in war zones.”

― Jan Schakowsky

“American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.”

― Jan Schakowsky

“I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.”

― Janet Jackson

“From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.”

― Jason Day

“Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been an adviser to Trump, although he still very publicly couldn’t land a job in the president’s Cabinet, despite providing that counsel. And Kobach has a long history of making up facts to help him pass unfair voter suppression laws and push extreme anti-immigrant proposals.”

― Jason Kander

“You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.”

― Jason Statham

“When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn’t be pushing people around again. But you can’t really do that with adults.”

― Jason Statham

“I’ve always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it’s very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.”

― Jean-Michel Jarre

“I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon.com. And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.”

― Jeff Bezos

“Normally, we push away the things we’re scared of.”

― Jeff Bridges

“A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.”

― Jeff Dunham

“There’s obviously a push to protect the quarterback, but you have to give the defensive players a chance. All of the quarterback has to do is pull the ball, and he’s a runner. How’s the defender going to know if the ball is pulled or not?”

― Jeff Fisher

“I like to push myself, you know.”

― Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it’s the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that’s what has kept me going as a singer.”

― Jeffrey Osborne

“I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.”

― Jenna Jameson

“People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.”

― Jennifer Aniston

“Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.”

― Jennifer Granholm

“Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously – everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don’t have to push that extra bit to sell what’s going on.”

― Jennifer Hale

“My producer for the first ‘Kung Fu Panda’ movie, Melissa Cobb, is an amazing woman. She’s supersmart and helps push everyone – male, female, anyone – to do their best.”

― Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.”

― Jenova Chen

“I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, ‘Yippee, I’m getting older’?”

― Jens Voigt

“I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don’t like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.”

― Jeremy Scott

“I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I’ll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don’t know how to watch out for things like that.”

― Jermaine Dupri

“I’ve always been a leader in the push for revenue sharing.”

― Jerry Reinsdorf

“You have to learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and push your limits.”

― Jesse Itzler

“Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.”

― Jesse Itzler

“I have always been small and one of the smallest heptathletes out there. And earlier in my career, I was faced with coaches and athletes who felt I was too small to be a multi-eventer. It gives you a push to show you can do it.”

― Jessica Ennis-Hill

“If the role is complicating and challenging enough for me to push me out of my comfort zone, then I get very excited.”

― Jim Sarbh

“I know that it takes a coalition of individuals fighting against this very divisive agenda that the Trump administration and the Republicans are trying to push.”

― Jimmy Gomez

“Business needs to push the agenda rather than waiting for it to happen.”

― Jochen Zeitz

“The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner – to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.”

― Joe Henderson

“I don’t wash my hair really too much, and I just roll out of bed and try to push it out of my eyes.”

― Joe Keery

“In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision – and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.”

― Joe Lonsdale

“I really didn’t like ‘Done With Mirrors.’ I really didn’t like ‘Just Push Play.’ Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like ‘Toys and Rocks.’”

― Joe Perry

“It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.”

― Joe Sacco

“Every time I get on the court, I want to push my teammates to be better as a leader and lead by example.”

― Joel Embiid

“I like going to the doctor, being vigilant, being told that I’m healthy so I can push myself.”

― Joey Chestnut

“There are competitive people who love to push their body but don’t love to eat like I do.”

― Joey Chestnut

“It’s more of a mental sport because I know I can push harder than someone who doesn’t know what his body can do.”

― Joey Chestnut

“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are always going to be distractions, push and shove between players. It’s about rolling with the punches and enjoying every situation, good or bad.”

― Johanna Konta

“We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.”

― John Banville

“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.”

― John Buchan

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.”

― John C. Crosby

“From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.”

― John Key

“’Stone Cold’ came in with a monster push as ‘The Ringmaster’ with Ted DiBiase. That didn’t work out.”

― John Layfield

“Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn’t push them to play more than they’re capable of playing.”

― John McEnroe

“I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.”

― John Mulaney

“Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a ‘shellacking’ in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.”

― John Podhoretz

“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.”

― John R. Allen

“My clients train hard. They don’t scream or throw weights – they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.”

― John Romaniello

“I don’t know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he’s in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.”

― John Schneider

“It can no longer be an afterthought in a child’s development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child’s brain at the elementary levels.”

― Johnathon Schaech

“As a songwriter, we’re looking for a good story, and we’re always looking to push the limits.”

― Jon Pardi

“I always want to push myself.”

― Jonathan Krisel

“I’m really about body positivity and self-love, and I will definitely push the boundary with a pink midriff-baring top.”

― Jonathan Van Ness

“If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.”

― Jordan Peterson

“Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I’ve known so many great conductors that I’m still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.”

― Joshua Bell

“The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.”

― Joshua Sasse

“Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.”

― Juan Cole

“Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there’s going to be a lot of flak, there’s going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.”

― Juan Williams

“I’m very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don’t push me. Because I don’t take that well.”

― Judy Blume

“This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.”

― Juice Newton

“Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it’s about how far you want to push from there.”

― Justin Peck

“As a team, you try to win – you try to push in as many overs you can – but that’s how it’s played.”

― K. L. Rahul

“A label’s typical plan would be to put something out that’s safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.”

― Kacey Musgraves

“I don’t push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.”

― Kacey Musgraves

“I’ve never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.”

― Kacy Catanzaro

“When you bring multiple cultures together, there’s a degree of push and pull.”

― Kamasi Washington

“I was kind of nervous to put ‘Learning’ out: it’s a lot different. That’s who I am. I’m going to push the boundaries.”

― Kane Brown

“As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo’s record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune – a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.”

― Kara Swisher

“It’s very important for me to constantly push myself.”

― Karen Bardsley

“Wanting to be better as an actor, model, and person in general motivates me to push myself.”

― Karrueche Tran

“I’m always trying to push for women’s rights.”

― Kate del Castillo

“I’m really incredibly stubborn – you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me ‘no’, if it’s something I really want, I’m just going to push harder.”

― Kathryn Stockett

“I don’t think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.”

― Kaya Scodelario

“I’ve always wanted to push someone who’s not really known but has mad talent. I don’t know if I’m going to do a publishing company or a record label, but I’m interested in pushing artists in any sense.”

― Kaytranada

“What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.”

― Keala Settle

“Obama stands as a signal that this nation will continue to redefine what it means to push beyond the borders of what’s possible.”

― Kehinde Wiley

“In the second season, usually television shows are running with the characters; they really get them. And then, the third season, they can push characters and really explore secondary storylines and things like that. And so I tend to like third seasons of most shows.”

― Keiko Agena

“Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there’s no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.”

― Keith Jarrett

“Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person’s doing good, that’s motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it’s motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That’s what I did.”

― Keke Palmer

“There’s definitely a push and a pull to ‘legitimize’ electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.”

― Kelela

“Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self-reinforcing bullish cycle.”

― Kelly Evans

“I’ve always been drawn to strong women in every genre, people who push the boundaries because they’re just epic.”

― Kelsea Ballerini

“I try to exercise when I’m on road – I really do try – but I also try not to push myself too hard. I just try to move.”

― Kelsea Ballerini

“Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I’m looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.”

― Ken Follett

“As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this tradition, the Orientalizing Western gaze is something you have to constantly push against as well as compromise with.”

― Ken Liu

“I would try to guide my children in a different way to have a career. Something besides being an actress, singer or model. I’m definitely going to push my kids in the other direction.”

― Kendra Wilkinson

“I can be multi-cultural, multi-lingual, work a physical style, push forward entertaining storylines, and be the more worldly entertainment that the company needs.”

― Kenny Omega

“In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.”

― Kersti Kaljulaid

“I don’t quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability – that’s the area of interest for me.”

― Kevin Barry

“Each year when we set up a new tour, we kind of push ourselves to come up with new ideas and new exciting things.”

― Kevin Jonas

“In the late-’80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn’t really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don’t really know why – I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn’t really know what was going on.”

― Kevin McKidd

“I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It’s a push.”

― Kevin Nealon

“As an 18-year-old, I would have needed an agent or a family to push me in the right direction. I would have liked that.”

― Kevin-Prince Boateng

“It’s wonderful when you pair entrepreneurs together because they can share experiences and in some ways push each other to build better products going forward.”

― Kevin Systrom

“All sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development and push ahead with them in a persistent manner.”

― Kim Jong-un

“I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we’ve got to have their trust.”

― Kirby Smart

“It’s always a danger when you’ve got a great quarterback that throws the ball well, that scrambles well. You may push him into his asset. You may force him to do what he does best. So you’ve got to be able to throw curveballs and stop the pass as much as stop the run.”

― Kirby Smart

“I’m feeling better every race; it’s just about staying in it and continuing to push to learn, and I don’t doubt it will come.”

― Lance Stroll

“The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.”

― Lando Norris

“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

― Larry Bird

“When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, ‘Convert this to Android format.’”

― Larry Ellison

“I have not tried for a career that’s showy. I have always tried to layer things in and not push it. I love an underperformance, where you’re so entrenched in who that person is that you’re living in it.”

― LaTanya Richardson

“We don’t want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.”

― Laura Ashley

“My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.”

― Laura Lang

“Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.”

― Laura Mvula

“Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.”

― Laurence J. Peter

“The Olympics, as a little kid, it was such a big goal that I created for myself, and I was able to push through and make that happen.”

― Laurie Hernandez

“When push comes to shove, no one really cares what you’re wearing except you.”

― Leandra Medine

“My goal is never to push anyone to do anything other than think.”

― Leandra Medine

“I had ‘Push’ and ‘The Paperboy’ next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.”

― Lee Daniels

“’Push’ had a story, ‘The Paperboy’ story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn’t as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in ‘The Paperboy’; they were vivid.”

― Lee Daniels

“Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.”

― Lee Pearson

“Ariana Grande was on a TV show, and then she started her career singing. If I’m offered a TV show, I’m going to pursue that and then see if I can push my singing. And then if I push my singing, awesome. My biggest goal, though? Be an actress in movies. I would love to have a career like Meryl Streep’s someday.”

― Lele Pons

“I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.”

― Lena Dunham

“Established actors will challenge you if they don’t agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you.”

― Lenny Abrahamson

“If you’re in Hollywood, with no track record, it’s pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.”

― Lenny Abrahamson

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.”

― Leo Rosten

“I didn’t push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can’t blame it on me.”

― Leon Spinks

“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

“I’ve been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.”

― Lesley Nicol

“I just know when I’m on the sideline, I can’t expect somebody to push me out of bounds.”

― Le’Veon Bell

“I can’t wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and push a lot of their stories out there.”

― Lil Rel Howery

“We’re not trying to push the real provocative edge.”

― Linda Johnson Rice

“There was never a push for us to become more practical… Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.”

― Linda Johnson Rice

“If you’re not confident, people push you around. That’s it. It’s super-simple.”

― Linda Perry

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.”

― Linda Sarsour

“I honestly think part of the appeal of ‘Rumours’ was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity.”

― Lindsey Buckingham

“It’s much more powerful to say I’m working to reduce spending, deal with our nation’s deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, ‘I’m a conservative.’”

― Lisa Murkowski

“Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.”

― Liu Xiang

“Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.”

― Loretta Napoleoni

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

― Lou Gramm

“We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.”

― Louis MacNeice

“Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”

― Louise Erdrich

“I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer – I’m going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.”

― Lucas Grabeel

“I am not obsessed, but it is natural that doing well for PSG is the only way I can push back into the squad.”

― Lucas Moura

“When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.”

― Lucia Micarelli

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The beautiful thing about it is that ‘Despacito’ is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn’t really push it; it just kinda went there.”

― Luis Fonsi

“I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA.”

― Luis Gutierrez

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

― L’Wren Scott

“I’m always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.”

― L’Wren Scott

“Here’s the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.”

― Lzzy Hale

“Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.”

― Maajid Nawaz

“An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We’ve seen that time and time again over history.”

― Mac Thornberry

“The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?”

― Macklemore

“We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, ‘Ooh, we’re having a water crisis.’ This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.”

― Mae Jemison

“I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.”

― Mahesh Babu

“Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.”

― Mahesh Bhupathi

“I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That’s up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer’s family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.”

― Maksim Chmerkovskiy

“I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.”

― Mal Peet

“If you never budge, don’t expect a push.”

― Malcolm Forbes

“I want to see us push for economical and educational advancement in communities of color and low-income communities, and I want to see our relationships between our communities and our law enforcement be advanced.”

― Malcolm Jenkins

“The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don’t really push for that extra whatever.”

― Malcolm McDowell

“It’s sometimes said that I’m rebellious and I do things to push people’s buttons, but I just like the challenge.”

― Marc Jacobs

“Integrity is integrity. I don’t push it to the side because I’m talking to Julia Roberts.”

― Maria Menounos

“When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.”

― Marianne Lake

“I take things that already exist and just push them.”

― Marilyn Minter

“Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.”

― Mario Cuomo

“I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.”

― Mark E. Smith

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

― Mark Harmon

“Small? Nah, I never want to be small. Big people usually push small people around. Why would I want to be small?”

― Mark Henry

“Drone attacks subvert the rule of law – we become judge, jury, and executioner – at the push of a button.”

― Mark McKinnon

“Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.”

― Mark McKinnon

“I’m fearful the Democratic Party is already moving too far to the left. I want to push the Democratic Party to be more in touch with mainstream America, and on some issues, that’s more left, and on some issues it might be more right.”

― Mark Pincus

“As an actor, that’s what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I’m not used to and push my own envelope and see what I’m capable of.”

― Mark Strong

“The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.”

― Mark Zuckerberg

“I can rebound, block shots, push the ball – basically, anything you need from a guard. Off the court, I’m humble.”

― Markelle Fultz

“We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.”

― Marsha Blackburn

“American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.”

― Martha McSally

“I’ve always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone’s feelings.”

― Martha Wainwright

“When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn’t reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.”

― Martin McDonagh

“All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.”

― Martin Rees

“If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing ‘Avatar’ in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation.”

― Mary H.K. Choi

“We don’t push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general could use a more adversarial press corps, especially when it comes to matters of national security.”

― Matt Apuzzo

“When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.”

― Matt Taibbi

“I didn’t let anyone push me into things I didn’t want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?”

― Maureen O’Hara

“I think all the players need coaching; if you do not push the player, they are going to be too comfortable. Always, you need to push.”

― Mauricio Pochettino

“Anything is possible. No one understands how far you can push your body to the limit, and I like to play with that.”

― Max Aaron

“We’ve got to stand up for ourselves. That is, draw some lines, make it clear that after awhile, we’re not going to get bullied or pushed around, because I think there are some in China who want to push the United States around. They want to bully us.”

― Max Baucus

“One of the challenges we set up for ‘Puscifer’ was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.”

― Maynard James Keenan

“I never want to lose touch with reality. I won’t push $100 candles just because. I realized that I could create a hub of positivity and affirmation.”

― Meghan Markle

“When push comes to shove, people vote alone.”

― Meles Zenawi

“More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it’s always funnier.”

― Melissa McCarthy

“I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don’t mean to say I knew everything, because I didn’t, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.”

― Merce Cunningham

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

― Michael Arad

“You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.”

― Michael Arad

“A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.”

― Michael Ashcroft

“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.”

― Michael Bay

“I don’t need others to push me. I push myself.”

― Michael Bisping

“The more in shape you are, the harder you can push yourself.”

― Michael Bisping

“You can push my buttons all you want and say whatever you want about me, and that’s fine… fighters do that.”

― Michael Bisping

“What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.”

― Michael Fassbender

“The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won’t get a diversity of opinions on television.”

― Michael Franti

“I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.”

― Michael Hayden

“You don’t want to push your young players too much.”

― Michael Laudrup

“I think the power of Stieg Larsson’s stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side of Sweden. That gave us a push to say that for the first time. That they can’t have with the American version.”

― Michael Nyqvist

“To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we’re also going to be a lot healthier.”

― Michael Pollan

“I’m a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it’s spontaneous, I go into character.”

― Michael Richards

“My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women’s economic empowerment and political participation.”

― Michelle Bachelet

“It’s great to see there’s a push behind women’s MMA because everyone who’s involved in women’s MMA is very passionate about it.”

― Michelle Waterson

“A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.”

― Michio Kaku

“It’s always push and pull with a record company.”

― Mike McCready

“We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.”

― Mike McCready

“Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.”

― Mike Simpson

“The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.”

― Milos Raonic

“I think it’s because I’m so hard on myself that I can push myself this far.”

― Mirai Nagasu

“I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.”

― Miranda Lambert

“The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty.”

― Miriam Defensor-Santiago

“A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.”

― Miriam Toews

“It is important for us to push into the box – not play around it like some sort of handball team.”

― Miroslav Klose

“Dogs are forever in the push up postion.”

― Mitch Hedberg

“You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else – a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government.”

― Mitch McConnell

“It’s like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn’t have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that’s the joy of it.”

― Mitchell Hurwitz

“’The Cup’ song did give a huge push, and after that, a lot of Internet happened. In the meantime, I was auditioning for many things, and ‘Karwan’ happened.”

― Mithila Palkar

“I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men’s clothes.”

― Miuccia Prada

“I always believe that the experiences that you go through are what make you stronger and what help you push forward through life.”

― Mj Rodriguez

“You can’t push and force people to do what they don’t want to do.”

― Mohammad Amir

“You can’t push and force people to do what they don’t want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.”

― Mohammad Amir

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

― Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don’t have to push things away mentally… If we ‘cotton-ball’ kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.”

― Morris Gleitzman

“It’s believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.”

― Naima Adedapo

“It’s my job… to push people out of their comfort zones. But we got to have a reason to do it. We don’t do it gratuitously.”

― Nancy Dubuc

“I tried to play ‘Barracuda’ on ‘Guitar Hero,’ and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it’s really counterintuitive.”

― Nancy Wilson

“While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump’s Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit.”

― Naomi Klein

“As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.”

― Naomi Klein

“There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There’s an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.”

― Natalie Dormer

“They tell me: ‘OK, this is where we’re going to push up your cleavage,’ and I’m like, ‘What cleavage?’”

― Natalie Portman

“From a logistical standpoint, I learned about when to peak, when to push, when to recover throughout the season.”

― Nathan Chen

“Advertising has to be contextual, as the potential in ‘push’ marketing is fairly limited and is largely viewed as spam. Thus there is a need to get into ‘permission’ marketing and ‘pull’ marketing to deliver value to marketers.”

― Naveen Tewari

“Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It’s the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.”

― Nicholas Kristof

“The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of – when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.”

― Nick Cave

“The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It’s time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.”

― Nick Denton

“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.”

― Nick Lampson

“Despite global economic concerns, other nations are continuing to push forward and invest in their space capabilities. A U.S. withdrawal from the industry will only allow others to surge in their own capabilities, potentially impacting our national security and technology competitiveness in the future.”

― Nick Lampson

“I’m willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I’m not sure I’ll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.”

― Nicole Holofcener

“We’re going to fight hard on this. We’re going to push hard – not just on North Korea; we’re going to push hard on other countries who are not abiding by the resolutions and not abiding by the sanctions against North Korea.”

― Nikki Haley

“We’re going to push hard against China because 90 percent of the trade that happens with North Korea is from China, and so, while they have been helpful, they need to do more.”

― Nikki Haley

“When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that’s part of Motley Crue’s legacy.”

― Nikki Sixx

“I just want to keep being involved in great projects that push positive messages to people.”

― Noah Centineo

“Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it’s enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.”

― Noel Clarke

“In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.”

― Norman Davies

“I like people who push the envelope.”

― Norman Reedus

“All I do is challenge the players to push themselves to their limit.”

― Nuno Espirito Santo

“The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don’t push it under the rug.”

― Octavia Spencer

“I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.”

― Olivia Newton-John

“Being really competitive, you’re hard on yourself when you make a mistake, but then you’ve got to push on.”

― Owen Farrell

“It is never the case that I will push myself more for the World Championships and play differently in a Super Series or vice-versa.”

― P. V. Sindhu

“I don’t purposely push the boundaries… I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much ‘difficult material’ as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you’ve earnt it.”

― Patrick Ness

“I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.”

― Patton Oswalt

“Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are the main event of WrestleMania 34 because neither one is content, and both are ambitious enough to push the limits of what is now considered their greatest moment, and that’s the point that neither one will ever accept. They will never accept the idea that they’ve peaked as individuals.”

― Paul Heyman

“If Paul Ryan is re-elected, if he’s sent back to Congress, he will push for the biggest amnesty in this country’s history; and immediately after his re-election, he will push Obama’s jailbreak crime agenda.”

― Paul Nehlen

“FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.”

― Paul Scheer

“My workout is always with a trainer because, quite honestly, I don’t think most people are motivated enough to do what they need to on their own. You either need a spotter or you need a trainer. You need somebody there to push you to get that extra five.”

― Paul Stanley

“I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn’t seem so much of that, really.”

― Paul Weller

“President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let’s have a ball. I’ll blow up the balloons myself.”

― Paula Poundstone

“This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.”

― Pep Guardiola

“’Push It,’ to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called ‘sell-out’ to be pop.”

― Pepa

“We’ll be in our 60s performing ‘Push It’ somewhere. Good old ‘Push It.’ I don’t know what it is about that song.”

― Pepa

“We’ve been fortunate. ‘Push It’ will never die.”

― Pepa

“Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.”

― Pete Domenici

“Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.”

― Peter Blair Henry

“Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.”

― Peter Greenaway

“Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.”

― Peter Hammill

“As our characters in our ‘X-FORCE’ began to push at the boundaries of what ‘X-FORCE’ was, it made perfect story sense for the team to change their name.”

― Peter Milligan

“I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don’t know what I would be doing without it.”

― Phillip Phillips

“What’s important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push this boys’-club, locker-room mentality out the door.”

― Phoebe Robinson

“God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf.”

― Pope Benedict XVI

“We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.”

― Poppy

“Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.”

― Pramila Jayapal

“I’m trying to be global and trying to push us, as a society, to becoming colorblind, and so I’m very grateful to ABC for casting me in ‘Quantico.’ It was based on my merit, not on my ethnicity.”

― Priyanka Chopra

“A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.”

― Rachel Sklar

“You set your goals to a point where they’re attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.”

― Rafael Palmeiro

“I try to support my kids in what they do and, at the same time, not push them towards anything.”

― Rakim

“I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.”

― Ralph Fiennes

“From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.”

― Ram Dass

“I always like to tweak things and push things forward.”

― Ramin Djawadi

“Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.”

― Randy Neugebauer

“No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.”

― Ray Lewis

“When I’m fishing, I feel guilty that I’m not writing, and when I’m writing, I feel guilty that I’m not fishing. But when push comes to shove, I’ll always take the writing.”

― Raymond Carver

“We constantly push the edge on technology. But for us, technology needs to be fun.”

― Reggie Fils-Aime

“We do think deeply about the sequencing of our games, but having said that, Nintendo is well-known that if a game isn’t ready, we will push out the development in order to make sure that it is as strong as possible when the game launches.”

― Reggie Fils-Aime

“Whether it’s with a ‘Metroid’ experience or a ‘Donkey Kong’ experience, we’re constantly looking to push the envelope on the IP versus doing sequential small iterations with a particular franchise.”

― Reggie Fils-Aime

“My thing is, I like to do things as long as they’re relatively fluid or easy. Not to say that there isn’t any effort involved in making something happen, but I don’t like to push things or force things too much.”

― Reggie Watts

“The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples’ buttons. It’s played once a week, so every game is important.”

― Rich Eisen

“Journalists undoubtedly have a duty to push, cajole, and aggressively maneuver around campaign handlers in order for the public to see a candidate unscripted.”

― Richard Grenell

“While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.”

― Rick Perlstein

“Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late.”

― Rita Coolidge

“I don’t want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I’ll just make you laugh.”

― Rita Rudner

“You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.”

― RJ Mitte

“It’s your human right to push back against something you disagree with. You do that by voting for that guy instead of that guy, or that lady instead of that lady.”

― Rob Halford

“I wanted to launch ‘Youngblood’ with an exclusive relationship with ComiXology because I believe that they can provide the extra push that a launch like this requires.”

― Rob Liefeld

“I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.”

― Rob Portman

“Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect.”

― Robbie Lawler

“I refuse to totally grow up. I’ve always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.”

― Robbie Williams

“Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.”

― Robert Rodriguez

“Don’t always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what’s possible for you.”

― Robin S. Sharma

“I don’t care about my legacy. It’s too late. My enemies will create it, and they’ll push it.”

― Roger Ailes

“I don’t want to push barriers myself. You go to see Joan Rivers to see barriers being pushed. You watch ‘Little Britain’ to see barriers being pushed.”

― Ronnie Corbett

“Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn’t really push the envelope at home.”

― Rory Kinnear

“Why do you all push us around?”

― Rosa Parks

“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.”

― Rosie O’Donnell

“I’ve had to push myself and I’ve really matured.”

― Ross Barkley

“Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that’s really outside the realm of show business.”

― Roy Orbison

“I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I’ve already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I’m capable of, and acting is definitely that.”

― Ruby Rose

“I’m not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.”

― Ry Cooder

“I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.”

― Ry Cooder

“Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?”

― S. Jay Olshansky

“We’ve got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.”

― Saku Koivu

“I’m not a skinny girl. I push it. I’m at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I’m happy at all times.”

― Salma Hayek

“I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.”

― Sam Brownback

“I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.”

― Sam Brownback

“My mother gave me a push. If I hadn’t had her, maybe I wouldn’t have had the push. If I hadn’t gone to military school, maybe I wouldn’t have decided to get with the program. Maybe I’d be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.”

― Sam Donaldson

“Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.”

― Sam Heughan

“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.”

― Sam Levenson

“I stick at things, will always push myself hard, and little by little, I’ll get to where I want to be.”

― Samuel Eto’o

“As an actor, you want to push yourself.”

― Sarah Baker

“When most kids were doing summer camp, I was doing the Arkansas festival circuit, passing out push cards, and shaking hands and tagging along with my dad to every nook and cranny in the state of Arkansas.”

― Sarah Huckabee Sanders

“Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.”

― Sasha Velour

“What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that’s a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.”

― Scooter Braun

“If you really love someone, you push them.”

― Scooter Braun

“All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will also push you to do precisely the things that scare you.”

― Scott Stossel

“I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.”

― Seal

“I’ve told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we’re wasting people’s time.”

― Sean Baker

“My one hope for Netflix and Amazon is to be a little more art house- and indie-friendly, pushing those just as hard as they push their originals.”

― Sean Baker

“’Man Push Cart’ is very similar to ‘Take Out.’”

― Sean Baker

“Lars Sullivan and EC3 are made for the main roster, more so than NXT. Obviously, Lars because he’s just freakish in so many ways. But EC3, I look at him, and I look at his mannerisms, his mic skills: he’s tailor-made for a good push on the main roster.”

― Sean Waltman

“Historically, Vince McMahon’s company has always been where the Hulk Hogans get the push and the Paul Orndorffs and Jake Roberts does the pushing.”

― Shane Douglas

“We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.”

― Shawn Crahan

“I would never, ever change the formula of what we would do, but what I want to do is go down somewhere really conceptual. Really artistic. Really theme-oriented. But I don’t want to push anything.”

― Shawn Crahan

“Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.”

― Sheila Heti

“When China fails to live up to its obligations, we push back – sort of. We accept arguments from Chinese leaders that they are a developing country that needs time to reform.”

― Sherrod Brown

“I have to be very aware of how I manage my health. I still have relapses if I push myself too hard and my immune system can’t handle it.”

― Sheryl Lee

“I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don’t want to ever be comfortable.”

― Shura

“You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven’t seen before, because then it is exciting for them.”

― Shweta Tripathi

“It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn’t know where everything was, who didn’t know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.”

― Sigourney Weaver

“Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.”

― Simon Mainwaring

“Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.”

― Simon Mainwaring

“I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.”

― Simon McBurney

“It’s interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it’s what we do, and it’s not like that in other parts of the world.”

― Simon Rex

“I’m always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It’s my strong will that I’ve always had since I was a kid.”

― Simone Biles

“Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word ‘rage’ advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one’s system for at least three days in order to perform a ‘cleanse.’”

― Sloane Crosley

“You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.”

― Sly Stone

“Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there’s not necessarily a right or wrong answer.”

― Soledad O’Brien

“I want to push myself.”

― Sonny Bill Williams

“A captain sees you differently from the way you see yourself. You need a captain who can push you.”

― Sourav Ganguly

“As creatives, it’s a hard thing to push, to make something you’re truly excited about, especially if you’ve written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.”

― Spike Jonze

“I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is.”

― St. Lucia

“I’m always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.”

― Stan Wawrinka

“The only plan is trying to push myself the maximum to be the best player I can.”

― Stan Wawrinka

“When I’ve worked with established artists, I’ve naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.”

― Starsmith

“You don’t want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. And when your time comes, then you’ve got to do everything you can, that’s all.”

― Stefon Diggs

“One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We’re not scientists. We don’t always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.”

― Stella Adler

“We need to push for work-family practices and policies that allow individuals to customize their work lives according to their changing individual preferences and family obligations, not just their traditional gender roles.”

― Stephanie Coontz

“A lot of brands just push messages out on social media, but that’s not what social is about. Social is about engaging. It’s about a conversation. It’s about listening and then responding. It’s an ongoing conversation with our fan base.”

― Stephanie McMahon

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

― Steve Irwin

“Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.”

― Steve Vai

“Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there’s so much clutter out there. You’ve got to push aside the static to really hear the music.”

― Steve Wynn

“You can say I’m not the easiest architect in the world, because I’m always trying to push the limits.”

― Steven Holl

“With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We’re very lucky because ‘Modern Family’ wouldn’t fit on cable: they’d want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it’s not.”

― Steven Levitan

“The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.”

― Steven Pinker

“It’s time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.”

― Steven Rattner

“You can’t push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.”

― Stone Cold Steve Austin

“Once I came up with the ‘Stone Cold’ thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn’t afraid to push the envelope.”

― Stone Cold Steve Austin

“I’m one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that – there’s another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.”

― Sugar Ray Leonard

“In space, if you push, you are usually going somewhere, so staying on the treadmill was a challenge at first, even with the harness.”

― Sunita Williams

“Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men’s wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10.”

― Suzy Menkes

“We’re trying to leave no stone unturned, to push forward in every aspect of what it means to be a band. Because this really matters to us. Metal matters to us. And we know exactly how much it means to kids out there, too.”

― Synyster Gates

“It’s a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as an artist.”

― Tamannaah

“How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.”

― Tamra Davis

“Most athletes won’t push a sport forward unless they have the incentive to do so – let alone when the structures of a sport have been set up to actually incentivize them to hold back.”

― Tara Lipinski

“Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.”

― Tara Stiles

“I’m a novelist – not an expert on coal mining. I’m not a politician with an agenda to push. I’m not a reporter presenting facts, and I’m not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I’m simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it’s where I come from, and it’s what I know.”

― Tawni O’Dell

“I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.”

― Taylor Sheridan

“A masterpiece doesn’t push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means – and change it as often as you like.”

― Terry Teachout

“As the former state speaker of the North Caroline House of Representatives, I helped push two landmark bills that protected and expanded gun rights for citizens.”

― Thom Tillis

“The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.”

― Thomas Dolby

“I did a brief visit at Google X, and they have these little push scooters that you can go from one end of the compound to the other, and the floors are very smooth to maximize efficiency of the push scooters.”

― Thomas Middleditch

“Nothing will push me away from Bayern.”

― Thomas Muller

“We try to continually push ourselves to do more and more, not just on the hardware side but also in terms of developers’ tools so they can take advantage of the hardware that’s there, in the best way.”

― Tim Cook

“I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology – and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.”

― Tim Hunt

“You’re not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I’m not afraid to do that.”

― Tim Kaine

“I got kids that are growing up in a Donald Trump world because we screwed up because we haven’t been able to craft a message and push policies that connect with working class people.”

― Tim Ryan

“Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.”

― Tim Ryan

“Within our lifetimes, we will be able to push out enough computational power to simulate reality.”

― Tim Sweeney

“I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I’ve always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.”

― Tim Sweeney

“I want to be remembered as a fighter with integrity. A fighter who did it this way, who has respect because he wanted to push the envelope for the fighters.”

― Tito Ortiz

“I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I’m given is so complex, and I’m so grateful for it, so I welcome any opportunities to push boundaries.”

― Tituss Burgess

“From an egotistical point of view, I’m always interested in roles that push me as a person. I’m interested in humans as animals and as products of society.”

― Tom Cullen

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

― Tom Holt

“Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing.”

― Tom Perez

“I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don’t even want to know how to load and unload the files.”

― Tom Scholz

“I’ve always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I’ve set out to hold candidates and elected officials accountable and to push our democracy to truly represent the interests of our kids.”

― Tom Steyer

“It wasn’t just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.”

― Tommy Ramone

“My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.”

― Tori Amos

“I’ve had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don’t push me too hard, because I’ll go until I just crash. I don’t have a stop button.”

― Tove Lo

“I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.”

― Toyin Odutola

“As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.”

― Travis Kalanick

“I’m competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.”

― Tyra Banks

“We need to push. We need to have ambition. We need to have desire to improve every day.”

― Unai Emery

“Actors often want to look like they’re comfortable. You want to go into an audition saying, ‘I’m your gal. I’m what you need.’ Yet you don’t want to push.”

― Valerie Harper

“We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.”

― Valerie Jarrett

“Racing can still be good even though you don’t push others off the track.”

― Valtteri Bottas

“With everything on ‘PLL,’ it’s not just a show that’s trendy that’s going to tell you what to wear next week. They push the issues. They force families into conversation.”

― Vanessa Ray

“The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I’m healthy, I’m not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It’s just about my body cooperating. It’s about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I’m not sure how much I can do with that, but we’ll see.”

― Venus Williams

“When you get told that you have a disease, it’s like: ‘Really? Nah, it’s all right. I don’t believe that. It must be something else, I’m just making an excuse, let me push harder.’”

― Venus Williams

“I’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.”

― Vera Wang

“The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.”

― Vicki Lawrence

“I do a lot of mixed martial arts – it’s like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don’t like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.”

― Victor Webster

“Sometimes – history needs a push.”

― Vladimir Lenin

“Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.”

― W. E. B. Du Bois

“The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don’t let show business push you around.”

― W. Kamau Bell

“The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California’s push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.”

― Walter O’Brien

“My father didn’t push me.”

― William Clay Ford, Jr.

“The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.”

― William Frederick Book

“When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.”

― William Henry Bragg

“You just don’t want to push people into doing things that they really don’t want to do. I don’t think it’s going to produce much.”

― William Scott

“A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene – without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.”

― William Wyler

“The good ones push their luck to the limit – like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.”

― William Wyler

“African countries lose the most from tax dodging. African governments must, therefore, do more to push for a full reform of the global tax system and demand action from countries, such as the U.K., whose financial centres sit at the heart of the global network of tax havens.”

― Winnie Byanyima

“It’s important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.”

― Wyck Godfrey

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

― Wynton Marsalis

“What I’ve learned how to do as I’ve gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I’ve ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.”

― Wynton Marsalis

“I… now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that’s out of shape and behind the times.”

― Xavier Becerra

“We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push.”

― Yemi Osinbajo

“We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.”

― Zac Brown

“I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.”

― Zac Posen

“Our first radio single, ‘The Stage,’ was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.”

― Zacky Vengeance

“We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.”

― Zbigniew Brzezinski

“When I was going through transition, I didn’t push it on everyone.”

― Zoey Tur

“Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn’t push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don’t have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they’ve had the opportunities.”

― Zubin Mehta