#push

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#down #exerting #other #pulling #pushing

I put the words down and push them a bit. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#down #i #push #put #them

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#actor #actually #buttons #everything #know

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#chirac #conflict #into #jacques #jacques chirac

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#am #apparent #apparent failure #back #been

I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me. ↗

— Debra Winger

#feel #going #i #i feel #i think

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production. ↗

— Kip Winger

#envelope #good #good records #grew #i

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope. ↗

— Sam Wood

#coming #down #down the road #envelope #foundation

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other. ↗

— Liu Xiang

#athletes #competing #course #each #encourage