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«Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.»
Author: Karl Weick | Keywords: boundaries, harder, pushing
«If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.»
Author: Paul Keating | Keywords: craft, pushing, risking
«I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rings. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But I can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.»
«I needed his lack of concern for the insignificant as much as he needed my mindfulness. But I had a tough time getting it ... I was busy pushing my mindfulness, and he was unconcerned about pushing anything.»
«I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: northward, pushing, ram, southward, westward
«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
«If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.»
«Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Truth | Keywords: counter, countered, counters, pushing
«He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: pushing, push forward
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»

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