Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.
I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience.
Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.
Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.
I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.
There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.
Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.
Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.
I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.
„Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne. “ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia. “ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working.
Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.
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.