The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything – social, sexual, emotional – they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn’t gonna last.
I think that everyone that grows up and aspires to be a tennis player dreams about being in the top 10 and pushing from there and going as far as you can.
Confidence is vital to pushing creativity and creating a point of difference.
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
I’m blessed to have a supportive family and friends, who keep pushing me to never give up dancing whatever happens.
Uber was probably the perfect inflection point of a world that is changing so fast in terms of consumers that are… pushing that button and using the mobile phone as the remote control for their life.
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.
And we’ve got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money – I hate to bring this up – are pushing hot buttons.
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don’t really know if it’s going to end up working. I’m stressed out most of the time.
If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don’t need a time just to win the race.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
I’ve bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you’ll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
Know who you are and stay true to it. Have a point of view, keep your head down when noise tries to drown out your inner voice, and whatever you do, keep pushing.
You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you’re dead, so… I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
The plan was just to make great art, and working with Donald Glover, who is such a renaissance man, we’ve been working together for ten years, and he is always pushing the envelope in a way – like, whenever we work together, I have no idea what it is going to turn out to be.
People constantly face problems they’ve never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices.
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture – or what there is of it – pushing by force their system on others.
I like challenges. I like pushing my body.
I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.
I think, as a performer, the biggest challenge is that you want to do a good job, pushing yourself. You want to go the extra mile every time.
We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.
I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa’s pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
I like pushing myself as an actor.
You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.
I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he’s pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you’re pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it’s a very, very dangerous thing to do.
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.
I’m never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you’re always learning. That’s what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.
I think the biggest thing I learned was the different types of leadership styles and the ways of pushing peoples’ butts, because they’re all different.
From a very young age, parents are pushing their boys to achieve in a way they don’t always do for girls.
A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the superior person in the room, sneering at the world. That can be very funny. But to me, what’s more interesting is that the world is on my shoulders, and it’s pushing me down.
For a while there, companies were pushing technology on people and people were buying it. Now the consumer is really in the driver’s seat. Now it’s more of an overall solution: How can technology make your life better? How can it save you time?
Confidence, to me, is just pushing yourself a little bit further than you think you can go, and you’ll always surprise yourself.
Personally, I feel like there should be some sort of cap on the quads, but we should still be pushing it to a certain number.
If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you – as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
Pushing guys to be the best, that’s part of the role I’ve always taken being a quarterback.
I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn’t going to be a doctor, but I couldn’t stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.
Social issues is something I’ve been a part of changing and pushing for. It’s embedded and ingrained in my soul. It’s not something that personally I try to plan. It just comes in the heat of the moment.
Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment – and older people are always advised to play it safe – yields a negative return when inflation is factored in.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They’re down and dirty, real and more fun.
I have voted against only one of President Obama’s nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers’ rights, and environmental protections.
Career politicians in D.C. have shirked their responsibility to us for decades. At every turn, they’ve kicked the can down the road, pushing the burdens of our problems and our debts onto our children and grandchildren.
The immigration policies that Donald Trump and the Republicans are pushing are downright hateful and must be stopped.
I want to see how far I can get in my career and just keep pushing myself to the limit every time and do my best pretty much.
I think that even at my most anxious, if I have a job to do or a role to fill, I know on some level I can step up and complete it. I mean, I’m probably not going to go bungee jumping anytime soon… but pushing myself to weather some discomfort now and then feels healthy.
I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I’m capable of. The thing to do is not to stop.
With the national team, you never know how long you’ve got, so you always have to be pushing and making the most of it.
Breast-feeding was so stressful for me. I kept on clenching and pushing my tongue against the bottom teeth, so they started to move toward an underbite.
