Definition of Pushing

Pushing

of Push

Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

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Pushing Quotations

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
Richard Branson

I like pushing boundaries.
Lady Gaga

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Descartes

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
Jean Piaget

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
Tony Campolo

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
Glenn Beck

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.
Peter Singer

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
John Goodman

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
Howard Dean

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
John Ralston Saul

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
Jim Capaldi

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
Dan O'Brien

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
Damon Hill

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
Shelley Long

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
Agnetha Faltskog

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
Spencer Bachus

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.
John Lee Hooker

One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert Simon

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.
Ethan Hawke

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
Christy Turlington

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
Oscar Robertson

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
Zhang Ziyi

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.
Jay Roach

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
Major Owens

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Pushing Translations

pushing in French is poussant
pushing in Swedish is tryckande, trycker

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