Pushed Quotations

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.

My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.

When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act.

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.

Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I think what's beautiful when you're looking at artists like Macklemore and you're looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they're proud of Seattle and they're bringing it back. Seattle's a real music town. When you act ashamed of that, you should be pushed outta the game as far as I'm concerned.

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.

As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.'

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.

I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.

Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

I get one shot at life, and I can say that I've lived a crazy one, and I've pushed the limit almost at every turn, and I'm super proud of that.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

People who are willing to stick to a strong pro-life position aren't going to be pushed off a strong anti-tax position. For people who like to think in ideologically cohesive ways, it makes no sense, but that's the way it is.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.

We've already had a decent amount of experience with a Canadian minority government. While the deck chairs may have been pushed around a lot, do the fundamentals really seriously change?

We stuck to our game plan of pushing the ball down the court. We kept pushing and pushing, and when (Flower Mound) started to get tired, we pushed some more. Some of their players got tired, but I kept fresh legs on the court by subbing in and out.

We still think commodity prices are at their peak and will gradually come off, but we've just pushed out the timing a little bit.

We still pushed the tempo when we had the opportunities to. They slowed it down but our half-court defense was pretty sound.

We started going to the bucket and Banks got hot. We pushed the ball up court and attacked. Martin's 3 was big at the half. They run a style that we like, and our experience was a factor in making that work for us.

When I was little, he was the one that pushed me and now that I am older, I now push myself a lot. And he has taught me a lot about boxing stuff, too.

You don't know what to think. You don't know what to do. You just do what you're told. You're getting yelled at from all different directions. You're being pushed and shoved everywhere. You just follow whoever's in front of you, and do what you are told. You don't really think about anything.

We're going to need an autopsy to show the cause of death. Right now, we don't know if they jumped, if they fell or if someone pushed them.

We're going to get pushed harder and learn more and be able to excel more in high school and college, be more prepared for the world out there.

When we got priority through downtown, it pushed us into a comfortable ranking.

When we get pushed against the wall, we seem to pull together.

What happens when you push the old guys out and put the young guys on the bench? These guys aren't getting a formal education or an informal education. The older guys are getting pushed out for the younger guys, but there's no one to teach them how to carry themselves.

What happens is that these guys are being pushed farther and farther into rural communities, where they have less access to the treatment in mental health they need, less access to employment opportunities . . . and they may be more difficult to monitor and supervise,

What happens is that these guys are being pushed farther and farther in to rural communities where they have less access to the treatment in mental health they need, less access to employment opportunities ... and they may be more difficult to monitor and supervise,

United pushed us back after the break, but they didn't have any clear chances. The tie's still open, so we're happy.

With two teams that pressure a lot and are physical, once someone gets pushed or aggravated and gets hit, tempers flare up and they get mad and teammates defend teammates and other people get involved. That was usually the case when we played them last year.

We fear the Fed has pushed too far with its (monetary policy) accommodation and will have to hike in a hurry,

We feel that we have a very good bench. Our second group has pushed our first group every day in practice.

Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.

With the second 'Captain America,' we really pushed the envelope in terms of what this guy is capable of, which I was excited to see. Because in the first 'Captain America,' he's just strong. In 'Avengers,' it was still, in my opinion, a little bit 'punch, punch, kick, kick.'

With these advanced capabilities, we see our success rate in terms of new and follow-up sales being pushed through the roof.

We knew we were the underdog. We all pushed our hardest, but East is a strong team.

We knew we were decent. When the kids called the meeting, it was gut check time. We became so much better. Our attitude was better and practices were better. When they got knocked down, they showed what they truly were made of. They developed a strong belief to excel. They pushed each other.

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

We were basically on the edges of roads. When the wind starts kicking up again, any of those fires could get pushed on to roads and in to grass.

The regional plots that pushed some Kurdish parties against other Kurdish parties are about to come to an end.

Wayne Bridge has got a good chance which is great news. When he first got injured in the England game we thought it would be a number of weeks but he's progressed and pushed himself really hard. He's got a good chance.

We always did promotional stuff, but never really pushed it. It was always off on the sidelines, and we decided to go full bore about three and a half years ago.

We did not have to wait for an interpreter to show up, we just pushed a button and instantly we had a live person interpreting through the T-LAN system. When the patient did not know a word on her admittance form, she just held it up to the screen and the interpreter read it to her.

We did get pushed around at times by Dover, but our kids are relentless. We have to be that way. We shift a lot before the snap on defense. Hull runs like a deer. He is all over the line. He might line up on the nose or as a tackle.

We really got out a little slower to begin with. We then got going and pushed the tempo a little harder than we usually do. We got in a groove and really pulled away in the third." ()

We have to play strong, you have to give it back. We're not used to being physically pushed around and you have to push back. In the state tournament, when you get pushed you have to push back.

We have really pushed them to get stronger on the hills and running longer distances. This race, in my mind, really showed that the training is starting to pay off handsomely.

We have pushed out the timing of the monetary policy easing to June and reduced the cumulative amount through 2006 to 75 basis points.

The fact is that it wasn't thought out; and the fact they didn't have a plan for those people, that they just pushed them around once again. They pushed them from one end of the island to another and the houseless call that sweeps.

There is a straight (heterosexual) man who embraced a mention of femininity. He responded to those marketing messages but ultimately had a reaction that's pushed him back to traditional masculinity.

We set the tone in the first game but we played in spurts. They tested us and pushed us and we didn't rise to the occasion.

The people never pushed or shoved or complained. And the children were so well behaved. Imagine how many Americans could send their kids out like that and not have to worry about them.

We have a rich tradition here in the Coshocton area, ... When we were pushed out of the east, this was one of the spots we stopped for a while before they pushed us further west. There is a lot of cultural history here. It's like we're back home again.