Whenever I see good reviews or positive reactions, I feel more certain that Blackpink will be okay pushing forward with the things we’ve been seeking.
It’s writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that’s broader than just figuring out a song. You’re also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements.
You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.
I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.
My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can’t I do that, too?
Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
There’s going to be bumps along the way, in any walk of life, not just as a professional footballer with injuries. You’ve got to be resilient with it and keep pushing through. It’ll make you stronger as well.
You have to keep pushing yourself and reinventing yourself.
It takes a big man and a big woman to actually say, like, ‘Okay, I’m in love with you, but I can’t keep forcing it – it’s only pushing us apart’.
If you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages – not to mention the myth of Icarus – predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
I’m pushing ahead on my own – you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.
It’s in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that’s sometimes very difficult.
As a member of the Senate Aging Committee, I’ve gone to bat for seniors by cracking down on senior fraud, combating price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, and pushing for wealthy individuals to contribute their fair share to Social Security.
It’s easy to be a prodigy. It’s really hard to keep pushing in new directions.
The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I’ll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of ‘higher, stronger, faster.’
Tai Chi is not super masculine. It’s not super pushing and strong, but it’s has so much power in its movements. It’s so smooth and it’s so subtle.
In this world, some things happen that we can’t completely understand. That’s OK; we don’t have to understand it. All we have to do is understand our self, believe in our self and keep trying and keep pushing forward.
The Chinese are quite clear what their interests are and very consistent on pushing their interests.
Any time you’re banged up, your body hurts, you don’t really feel like going to the gym. That’s when I feel like you really have to push through it. That’s when you really make the leaps and bounds in your game. So, pushing through those days is never easy, but that’s what gets you good.
Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.
You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ like, ‘Read these books.’ And it was like, man, I’m learning stuff that I just can’t get anywhere else.
I love Red Bull, they support everything that I do. They always support music and they’re always pushing music.
We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.
There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father’s face, he’s pushing back. He’s sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
I was raised on GG Allen, Divine, Elvira and Marilyn Manson. I was always more interested in those button pushing, transgressive artists and they made a lot of good money doing it.
Sometimes you can win by persevering, pushing and pressuring your competition.
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It’s a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.
Capitalism doesn’t function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It’s like pushing a giant monster under water that’s gasping for air. It goes nuts.
You know, you don’t work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.
My mum was always more pushing me towards the academic side; she wasn’t really interested in me having a professional football career.
I never thought I would do a TV show, I never thought I could do it, so I was not expecting a really good performance. It was more about building confidence, and good or bad, I was encouraging other people and pushing myself.
The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.
I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.
Rap is the only interesting music left – it’s the only genre that’s still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that’s my position. I’ve been pushing that one since before it was popular.
I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I’m always game for that.
I like Alexander McQueen’s work a lot: he’s always pushing boundaries, and he’s rough around the edges.
I was always pushing the limits, going as far as I could. I would do all kinds of crazy things.
I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing – no one is stopping you from going faster.
I did a pilot for Fox years ago called ‘Faceless,’ with Sean Bean. I always thought it was such a cool show because it was really raw. I thought we were pushing it. This was back at a time before there was the ‘cable standard.’
Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn’t pushing himself hard enough.
When you’re rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you’re not pushing it.
You gotta go out and do the stuff that’s going to be pushing the sport and stuff that’s going to be next level and scary. It’s all about going out and doing those tricks and pretty much surviving.
I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, ‘This is how I see the world.’ And it seems my sight is off-kilter and kind of strange, but I come by that naturally; I’m not consciously pushing toward a particular point on the continuum.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
I’m really proud of the roles that I’ve played and pushing myself to be brave enough to play them.
If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.
I’ve always been interested in working with top athletes, athletes who are pushing the edge and are really progressive in the outdoor space and adventure world.
The props of being a Leeds United player in my own home city is good and the rewards in football are very good so it helps me to look after my family and they are the reasons why I carried on pushing, to help my family.
That’s what I love about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another. And that’s what I hate about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another.
Everybody listens to Bob Marley. It gives you an inner feeling to keep pushing on. It’s an education on life. He helps me out every day. It gives me a deep-down feeling.
