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It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better. -- Gianni Versace
Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't. -- Beth Behrs
Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves. -- Simon Sinek
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. -- Richard Schickel
Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box. -- Tyler, The Creator
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back. -- Sheryl Swoopes
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. -- Susie Orbach
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. -- Washington Irving
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. -- Helen Keller
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be. -- James Cameron
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. -- Dan Rather
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. -- Carter G. Woodson
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable. -- Barry Ritholtz
When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive. -- Evan Davis
When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. -- Edward Norton
I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. -- Ashton Kutcher
I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits. -- Bethany Hamilton
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.' -- Jerry Saltz
I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take. -- Ashton Kutcher
One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity. -- Craig Venter
There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made. -- Michael Nesmith
Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong. -- Nicole Polizzi
My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you know, every scene, you know, pushes every button, is 'True Romance' directed by Tony Scott with Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, and it's a fantastic, fantastic film, very violent, very romantic. -- Caterina Scorsone
During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year. -- Walter Payton
Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted. -- Ray Winstone
Pain pushes until vision pulls. -- Michael Beckwith
When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back -- James Rollins
The pain pushes you, until the vision pulls you -- Michael Beckwith
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward. -- Hans Rosling
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. -- Abraham Kuyper
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire. -- Mason Cooley
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. -- Frances Mayes
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes. -- Carl Lentz
Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope. -- Pat Benatar
Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design. -- Seth Godin
Excellence is the jet engine, that pushes you faster and higher to success. -- Mark F. LaMoure
I am a multi-dimensional woman who pushes boundaries and dares to be herself. -- Joanna Lohman
When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed. -- Ashton Eaton
Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self. -- Vivian Amis
I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out. -- Brande Roderick
Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing. -- Jack Dorsey
I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience... -- Frank Gehry
No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around. -- Dan Devine
Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out. -- Silvio Berlusconi
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? -- Nikita Khrushchev
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. -- Rumi
An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes. -- Fred Ross
Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success. -- Steve Harvey
I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you. -- Dominic Cooper
Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it. -- Shaun White
Highly sensitive people are often afraid to speak up, until life pushes them to do so. -- Doreen Virtue
...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness... -- John Geddes
I hope Limitless.. and its this Limitless hope that pushes me forward to live this Life..!!! -- Abhijeet Sawant
Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs. -- John Gray
Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious. -- Robert Kiyosaki
A competitor is a valuable foil that unites a company from within and pushes the brand's boundaries. -- Martin Lindstrom
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal. -- George Meyer
Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now! -- Joyce Meyer
But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away. -- Margaret Atwood
Honesty is not always the bestpolicy when it hurts theperson you care about themost and pushes them away. -- Alison G. Bailey
A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively. -- Erin Willett
When we push life, life pushes back. When we let go, things begin to flow....direction unknown though ! -- Wali
New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels. -- Baratunde Thurston
Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away. -- Ralph Marston
In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you. -- Sete Gibernau
Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart. -- Liane Holliday Willey
My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can. -- Tim Lincecum
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner. -- Oscar Handlin
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings. -- Jane Fonda
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. -- Marianne Williamson
The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. -- Alan Watts
Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook. -- Alain Ducasse
Mother nature pushes you back the faster you go, same way people will full you back, the faster you succeed. -- Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy. -- Malin Akerman
It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful. -- Michael Chandler
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics. -- Morgan Fairchild
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. -- Philip Jose Farmer
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. -- Seth Godin
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. -- Lois Lowry
I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film. -- James Wan
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy. -- Tim Berners-Lee
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. -- Ketch Secor
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. -- Scott Nearing
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. -- John Major
Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition? -- Peter Thiel
Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. -- John Major
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. -- Scott Nearing
We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive. -- Daniel Kahneman
Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions. -- Mike Gordon
Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different. -- J Mascis
When there are more males in the industry to begin with, it just has a more male feel, and that pushes the girls away. -- Jennifer Pahlka
All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself. -- Debbi Fields
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world. -- Neal A. Maxwell
I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it. -- Misha Collins
In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger. -- Gaspar Noe
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life. -- Jack Kornfield
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. -- Jan Karon
My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward. -- Bob Saget
Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through. -- Jess Walter
All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath. -- Sarah McLachlan
A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force. -- Prentice Mulford
I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them. -- Balthazar Getty
You know what I worry about? I worry that when I hit my head, it pushes my hair into my brain, and it will eventually kill me. -- Drew Carey
The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future. -- Erin Morgenstern
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear. -- Edward Abbey
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure... -- Seneca the Younger
I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song. -- Patrick Stump
I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave. -- Joan Crawford
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise. -- Sharon Gannon

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