Push The Envelope Quotes

#1. I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

Bernard Hopkins

#2. I'd have devoured those books I've come to love - the ones that have helped me reawaken my sexuality. The books that have made me realize it's okay to want more out of my sex life, to want my husband to push the envelope with me. Experiment with me. Demand more of me.

C.D. Reiss

#3. Just as a callus gets thicker and stronger with use, your body adapts to higher levels of pain. You need to push the envelope to force your brain and body to accept higher levels of discomfort.

Aaron Olson

#4. I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

Martha Wainwright

#5. Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#6. I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

Irene Rosenfeld

#7. I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I'm capable of, and acting is definitely that.

Ruby Rose

#8. I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.

Clark Gregg

#9. 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

#10. My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record ... I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.

Steve Earle

#11. We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

Greg Nickels

#12. The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

George R R Martin

#13. My style during the day is very casual - boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I'm not afraid to push the envelope.

Katie Cassidy

#14. People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

Carmen Electra

#15. You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

Elizabeth Warren

#16. The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.

Thomas Dolby

#17. What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

Aasif Mandvi

#18. Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you're right on the edge, but you don't go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

Yvon Chouinard

#19. I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

Michael Richards

#20. Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.

Courteney Cox

#21. I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

Merle Dandridge

#22. We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero

#23. I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Cybill Shepherd

#24. You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

Seth Godin

#25. I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Dwayne Johnson

#26. By far, the content of Canadian films. You're able to push the envelope in ways you can't in the U.S., I find. But also, because of the budgets and everything, it's all condensed, quick, and short.

Kristen Hager

#27. I like people who push the envelope.

Norman Reedus

#28. I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

Rita Rudner

#29. The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Randy Schekman

#30. When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#31. Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

Rory Kinnear

#32. Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.

Ellen Stofan

#33. Everyone should feel alive. Should smash up against passion and danger, against temptation and anticipation. You have to push the envelope sometimes,because otherwise how do you know what your limits really are?

J. Kenner

#34. I'm always trying to push the envelope and go with a different hairstyle that you're not going to see on anybody else. I have a really good grade of hair, and I can do a lot of different things with it.

David Otunga

#35. I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.

John Roecker

#36. When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.

Nikki Sixx

#37. You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.

Jonathan Mostow

#38. The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.

Ken Marino

#39. Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

Criss Angel

#40. I have been very, very fortunate on this show, on 'Suits,' where the writers do come to me, and they ask my comfort level and, if they want to push an envelope in a certain direction, if I'm okay with that. And, by and large, I am. I think it's important.

Gina Torres

#41. Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

S. Jay Olshansky

#42. The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Vicki Lawrence

#43. I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

Criss Angel

#44. It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.

Jeanne Cordova