Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.
Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.
Everyone has a button for sadness and a button for happiness, your condition depends on which one you push the most.
If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.
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.
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
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.
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.
The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.
I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.
Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.
