Pushing Quotes - page 2

If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States. (Mao Zedong)
Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm at Sidmouth, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. View quote
Sydney Smith
Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism. View quote
Karl Marx
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. View quote
René Descartes
We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended. View quote
Donald Norman
I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram! View quote
Albert Einstein
While some people may think being a chef only entails making enticing dishes and pushing the culinary boundaries, being a part of the food industry involves much more. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. View quote
Mary Higgins Clark
If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork. View quote
Rick Riordan
As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate. (Gordon Ramsay)
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself. View quote
James Patterson
Hi, Max," she said, pushing her shades up onto her curls. "I hope your wearing sunscreen," i said, "your gonna have hella wrinkles by the time your ten.” "Want some daiquiri?” she offered, pointing at a blender. "Is it traitor flavored?” I asked. View quote
James Patterson
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it. View quote
Kendrick Lamar
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. View quote
Karl E. Weick
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. View quote
Lindsey Vonn
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become. View quote
David Malouf
Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. View quote
Helen Reddy
And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward. (Alicia Sacramone)
From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. View quote
Adam Clayton
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders. View quote
Bill Budge
They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there. View quote
Bill Janklow
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe. View quote
Bill Sienkiewicz