I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.
As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.
Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.
You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.
You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.
You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.
Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in. " Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.
If you have no doubt in what you are about to do, you are not pushing yourself hard enough.
I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself in a situation where our band Swans is doing typical chord progressions - it just seems cliché to me. Even changing chords sounds like a cliché sometimes, though it happens occasionally in our music. But you find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.
And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.
It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.
When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.
When you do hit the gym, you should push yourself. This is what makes fitness phenomena so interesting.
You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.
There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.
