Pull Push Quotes

#1. All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Julia Cameron

#2. Basketball Rule #2 (random text from Dad)
Hustle dig
Grind push
Run fast
Change pivot
Chase pull
Aim shoot
Work smart
Live smarter
Play hard
Practice harder

Kwame Alexander

#3. PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#5. When I'm in the gym, I always try and pair a push and a pull motion. I'll then follow that with a lot of shoulder stability work.

Andrew Luck

#6. I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.

Bob Johnson

#7. I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.

Nikki Sixx

#8. Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.

Nora Roberts

#9. Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

Dave Ramsey

#10. Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

Robert Harris

#11. I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.

Seungri

#12. Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.

Kevin Keck

#13. The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

Judith Crist

#14. It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

Harold B. Lee

#15. You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.

Bryant McGill

#16. If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise.

Jeanne Gang

#17. Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.

Frederick Lenz

#18. And I can't get to her. My girl is half naked and dying and I can't get to her!
I push forward.
I ice solid.
I crack it and pull back.
Fuck!

Karen Marie Moning

#19. That might be true, but love comes from the way differences interact. How personalities interact. How we bounce off of each other, challenge each other, and how we push and pull. It's through those tensions that we connect with others and with ourselves. And it's how we fall in love.

Jessica Park

#20. Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up

Bo Sanchez

#21. To lead is neither to push or pull.

Robert Jordan

#22. Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.

Anthony Hopkins

#23. Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#24. Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

Marcus Aurelius

#25. She knew a thing she should have known all along: that dead people are like wax memory-you take them in your mind, you shape and squeeze them, push a bump here, stretch one out there, pull the body tall, shape and reshape, handle, sculp and finish a man-memory until he's all out of kilter.

Ray Bradbury

#26. Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.

Simon Mainwaring

#27. If you ask 10 nomes to push four will pull and two will say pardon

Terry Pratchett

#28. It's always push and pull with a record company.

Mike McCready

#29. A lot of my work has been about the unexpected - that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma - that push and pull - is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

Kara Walker

#30. We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.

Woody Hayes

#31. It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

Laura Moriarty

#33. Balance, Chlo ... Give and take. Push and pull. You for her, her for you. I think they're mad that I tried to have it both ways to keep you alive and her, too.

Nova Ren Suma

#34. I eat things I shouldn't eat all the time. I have to work out so I can enjoy myself! I like to run, and I'll do body weight stuff: push-ups, squats, lunges, pull-ups.

Carrie Underwood

#35. Our lips moved together in sync. Push and pull. The ocean and the moon. I

Micalea Smeltzer

#36. [Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.

Jim Butcher

#37. The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#38. When you disrupt yourself, you are looking for growth, so if you want to muscle up a curve, you have to push and pull against objects and barriers that would constrain and constrict you. That is how you get stronger.

Whitney Johnson

#39. If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

Bill Mauldin

#40. We're both so fucking broken that I understand our strange attraction, a push-pull magnetism born of similar scars.

Ann Aguirre

#41. When I was a teenager, I did a lot of pull-ups and push-ups. Every night before bed, I'd do 150 - in sets of 30 or so. Looking back on it now, I'm not totally sure that's the best way to improve as a climber. But it did make me a lot better at doing pull-ups and push-ups.

Alex Honnold

#42. When searching for help, look for the one that will push, not the one that will pull! Your machinery needs a pusher; just avoid every puller and you'll keep going forward!

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. Don't wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don't wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#44. I'm sorry that I am back and forth, push and pull
instead of effortless simplicity.

Trista Mateer

#45. Everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

Carlos Castaneda

#46. People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.

Lauren Oliver

#47. Never struggle with anyone or anything. When you're pushed, pull; when you're pulled, push.

Dan Millman

#48. It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

Michael Bassey

#49. The ocean, like life, always has movement. A sailboat with all its parts together, in its wholeness, can lead it's own way, cutting through challenging waves with strength, ease, purpose and determination, no matter the pull and push of the waves.

Elaina Marie

#50. The idea here is that we are less wicked than we are weak. As sarx - as mortal animals - we are playthings of the devil, who uses the fear of death to push and pull our survival instincts (our fleshly, sarx-driven passions) to keep us as "slaves to sin.

Richard Beck

#51. There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

John Krasinski

#52. Relax,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with a slow, awkward beginning. The text for the whole relationship, the sustaining mythos, is built in the first few encounters. The whirl of emotions, the push and pull. So the more of this kind of material we generate, the better.

Jonathan Lethem

#53. I couldn't escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain.

Samantha Summers

#54. It's just push and fucking pull with you.

S.L. Scott

#55. I've lived a life overrun with gravity and momentum. My choices run parallel with the current of circumstance.
Not anymore. I'm through with gravity. I loathe momentum. I crave the turbulence of emotions. I want the push, the pull, the ache, the fall.
I want the storms.

J.A. DeRouen

#56. 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

#57. The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.

Margo Jefferson

#58. Push the buttons. Pull the levers. Pretty soon, reality just flows off and away.

Haruki Murakami

#59. If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.

Ed Seykota

#60. When you have trouble with things - whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries - it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.

Donald A. Norman

#61. She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an adequate substitute for talent...

W. Somerset Maugham

#62. The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.

Ethel Mumford

#63. PULL and PUSH" are basic principles of life. You must PULL to work hard and then PUSH to give hard" ... The reason why we gain is to give!

Israelmore Ayivor

#64. The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song -
This damn door sticks,
This damn door sticks
It sticks no matter what I do.
It is marked 'pull' and indeed I am pulling
Perhaps it should be marked 'push'?

Terry Pratchett

#65. If you won't push someone up, the least you can do is not to pull him down.

Nana Awere Damoah

#66. An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.

Steve Martin

#67. You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Damien Hirst

#68. This is your success and this is the magic hour, the golden time before the time. Just be in it. You earned it. Don't spread it and don't pull on it and don't push it and don't share it and don't examine it. This is it.

Caroline Kepnes

#69. A thing of nature.
For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Brandon Sanderson

#70. Tam knew what I was saying. He stared at me, his expression unreadable. "I need you to support the ceiling above the tear I'm going to make."
"Yeah, yeah. I got it. You pull; I push. Let's go!"
"I need control and delicacy, Raine."
I snorted. "Too bad you're stuck with me.

Lisa Shearin

#71. It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way.

Jacob Bannon

#72. Pull - don't push. Investigate - don't present. Probe - don't pitch. Ask - don't assume. How? Talk less - listen more. Make fewer statements - ask more questions.

Darren Hardy

#73. The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.

Nikolas Lee

#74. You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

Andrew McMahon

#75. I always pull over for people who need a push.

Esai Morales

#76. Mother nature pushes you back the faster you go, same way people will full you back, the faster you succeed.

Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

#77. You can push my buttons all you want. Just don't pull any of my levers.

Carroll Bryant

#78. I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life ... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#79. To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.

Roger Ailes

#80. It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, find that unoccupied part, the cool part of his pillow.

Rodney Ross

#81. Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

Sandra Lee

#82. It was consumer pull, rather than business push, that would determine where ads appeared.

David A. Vise

#83. Her fingertips tentatively curled around the hair at the back of his neck, and she found that she was shaking, sure he would push her away at any moment. But he didn't. He did not pull away. Did not grimace.

Marissa Meyer

#84. 'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Nnedi Okorafor

#85. My mom used to say that in the United States of Asgard, you can feel the moments when the threads of destiny knot together, to push you or pull you or crush you. But only if you're paying attention.

Tessa Gratton

#86. People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Donald Sadoway

#87. Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.

Joe Perry

#88. You will work harder at something you love than at something you like. You will work harder than you have ever worked when you start chasing a dream. You will hustle and grind and sweat and push and pull. You will get up earlier and go to bed later. But that's okay.

Jon Acuff

#89. When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.

John Toshack

#90. There's something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they're in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they're called crabs.

Jen Sincero

#91. People can poison people; people can also promote people. People can push people up; people can also pull people down. Don't just follow people cheerfully; follow people carefully!

Israelmore Ayivor

#92. Temptation is a push or a pull intended to take us away off the will of God

Christian Michael

#93. I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

Andre Dubus III

#94. When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode? ... My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.

Elizabeth Streb

#95. For me, however, it was a mix of the two, this constant push and pull. I loved it here. But I'd been in that circle and star for my entire life, and I so wanted to know what it would feel like to claim another distant spot as my own, if only for a little while. Someday.

Sarah Dessen

#96. You might be tempted to skip the middleman and just leave this bit of code in Bicycle to begin with, but this push-everything-down-and-then-pull-some-things-up strategy is an important part of this refactoring. Many of the difficulties of inheritance are caused by a failure

Anonymous

#97. You have to want it. Not kind of want it, but really want it, and be motivated to take action. Only then does the future pull you towards it. You won't have to push yourself as much, but you will be attracted to what you want.

Charles Jensen

#98. I just wanted you to know that it's not you. It's me. It's all me, and if I push you away it's because I don't know how to pull you close. I'm not . . . I'm not good with people.

Jessica Clare

#99. If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.

Zig Ziglar