Push
A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang.
A pustule; a pimple.
To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.
To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.
To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.
To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.
To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.
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Push Quotations
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci
Dogs are forever in the push up postion.
Mitch Hedberg
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes - history needs a push.
Vladimir Lenin
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Andrew Carnegie
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
Andrew Carnegie
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird
I put the words down and push them a bit.
Evelyn Waugh
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
John Buchan
I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?
Maureen O'Hara
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
Malcolm Forbes
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Denis Diderot
I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
Tyra Banks
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
Janet Jackson
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
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
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Stella Adler
But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
Al Franken
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten
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Push Translations
push in Dutch is aanduwen
push in French is poussons, poussez, poussent, buter, acculer
push in Italian is urtare, pigiare, spingere, spingere, folata
push in Latin is pulsus
push in Portuguese is impulso
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