I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

- Axl Rose

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

- Ashton Eaton

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

- Anurag Kashyap

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

- Anne Carson

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

- Annalee Newitz

Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.

- Alistair Brownlee

I take issue with those who criticize 'The Biggest Loser' for pushing contestants too hard. The whole point is to push them hard. Otherwise, there's no change.

- Alison Sweeney

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

- Alexander Payne

There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.

- Alex Honnold

A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.

- Adrian Tomine

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take.

- Ashton Kutcher

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

- Ashton Kutcher

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

- Anne Frank

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

- Andrew Carnegie

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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.

- Alexander McQueen

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

- Alanis Morissette

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

- Al Gore

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.

- Abdullah II of Jordan