Top 1200 Pushing Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.

We are redefining what leadership looks like and pushing for every single person to be part of that conversation.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

When I was in Portland, they started pushing me to do more media when they thought I was going to be a head coach.

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

I think it's the snack food industry that's really pushing the marijuana legalization issue in California.

We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

You can't try to make something crazy happen when nothing is there. You've just got to keep pushing.

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

It's good to keep working hard, pushing yourself, and, by scoring goals, you get the reward.

Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.

There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

You want to push a guy up against a cage, there's nothing like pushing a car.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Doubt is what I see with a lot of women, we doubt ourselves. Whether it's because we think we're too fat or ugly or not smart enough, our gender puts ourselves down. But we need to own exactly who we are.

When you can produce measurable, replicable results, it builds confidence and motivates you to keep pushing forward.

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

Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach, feeling guilty or judging ourselves has never really worked.

It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

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

The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.

I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

Women in general, we tend to shrink ourselves and not have as much confidence as we should in presenting ourselves and our body types. It's OK to be fit and healthy and comfortable within your body, whatever frame you have.

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

From a very young age, parents are pushing their boys to achieve in a way they don't always do for girls.

My whole thing was getting in there with these guys and really pushing their limits. Testing their toughness and their desire.

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.

It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable.

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

I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.

The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.

We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

Our ability to understand ourselves is now expanding beyond the information that we can receive from our five senses. We're becoming aware of ourselves as more than minds and bodies. We are becoming aware of ourselves as souls while we simultaneously have personalities and walk upon the earth. That is the huge transformation that is reshaping the human experience - the expansion of our perceptual capability beyond the five senses. We're becoming multisensory.