Gordon B. Hinckley

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

American Clergyman

Soha Ali Khan

Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don't match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can't praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.

Indian Actress

Steve Harvey

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

American Actor

Helena Bonham Carter

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

British Actress

Leslie Jamison

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

American Novelist

Don Rickles

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

American Comedian

Nina Simone

You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.

American Musician

Melania Trump

I'm not that kind of wife who would say, 'Learn this' or 'Learn that.' I'm not a nagging wife.

American First Lady

Bill Watterson

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

American Cartoonist

Kevin Hart

Using 'nag' suggests annoyance and can sound critical if used to describe someone's behavior.

Negative Connotation

'Nag' emphasizes repetitive complaining or requests which can be irritating.

Repetitive Action

Sometimes 'nag' can be seen positively, as showing persistent concern.

Not Always Bad

Calling someone 'a nag' can be offensive; be cautious in using it to describe people.

Labeling People

Be aware 'nag' is often gendered and stereotypically applied to women more than men.

Gender Sensitivity

What one person considers 'nagging' may not be seen the same way by someone else.

Personal Perception

The 'old horse' definition is rarely used today and may be unfamiliar to most listeners.

Specific Usage

Understanding that 'nag' being an old horse links to past rural lifestyles can provide context.

Historical Context

 identified and showed it other the other students as a matter of fact we decide to start a little impostor support group we started meeting and talking about big intellectual frauds and how we're fooling all of our professors and everything went great for about three weeks and that's about the time I started to have this nagging sense that

Thinking your way out of...

 So we said, there's just got to be a better way to do this. Existing material handling was set up to pump pallets and cases of goo to retail stores. Of course Webvan went out of business, and about a year and a half later, I was still noodling on this problem. It was still nagging at me. And I started thinking about it again.

Mick Mountz: What...

 And in this moment, the nagging devil disappears. So I can say It's not the hundreds of reasons why one can't be an artist, but rather, the one reason one must be that makes us artists. Why we cannot be something is not important. Most artists became artists because of the one reason.

Young-ha Kim: Be an...

 But over the years, as I have thought about these technologies and the things that I work on, a question kind of nags in the back of my mind, which is, what if we're wrong about the virtues of technology, and if it sometimes actively hurts the communities that we're intending to help?

Jon Gosier: The problem...

 moment and she's exceptionally large isn't she and not in the not in the large manner as that big buffalo bull but and the fact that maybe she's going to have a car soon maybe that's why she's nagging behind the hood hopefully these boys will stay with her to help

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 and act like our kid's concierge and personal handler and secretary. And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be,

How to Raise Successful...

 Life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility. We are young until we are not. We walk down the streets sexy until one day we realize that we are unseen. We nag our children and one day realize

The gift and power of...

 Even after writing eleven books and winning several prestigious awards, Maya Angelou couldn’t escape the nagging doubt that she hadn’t really earned her accomplishments.

What is imposter...

 even before being a girl. I was a noticeable nobody. Another world was opening up around this performance and dancing. That nagging dread of self-hood

Embracing otherness,...

 now only nagging and phatu survive and to keep them safe from poachers they must live out their days under constant armed guard

Nag

To constantly complain or criticize.

Often appears as...

A person who constantly complains or criticizes.

Often appears as...

An old or weak horse.

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Negative Connotation

Repetitive Action

Not Always Bad

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