Pushiness Quotes & Sayings

And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June! — Robert Browning

Lamenting the past is a waste of energy that we can turn into positive energy through work and acquiring skills. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording. — Jonathan Lethem

I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have. — Jennifer Lawrence

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal. — A.S. King

Pushiness is always at war with stubborness. — Toba Beta

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes. — Jack Ma

Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt. — John Piper

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything. — Eve Ensler

There was a time when she would have lingered to hear what amusing or sinister characteristic the woman attributed to the man's Jewishness - what business acumen or frugality or neurosis or pushiness she assigned to his tribe - and then, when she had let the incriminating words be spoken, she would have gently informed the woman that she was Jewish herself. But she had tired of that party game. Embarrassing the prejudices of your countrymen was never quite as gratifying as you thought it would be, the countrymen somehow never embarrassed enough. It was safer, on the whole, to enjoy your moral victory in silence and leave the bastards guessing. — Zoe Heller