And if a teacher challenged his views, former classmates said, he was quick to push back.
He was often the quickest to push an aggressive approach, whether on foreign policy or on budgets or on trade.
Authorities of the "Luhansk People's Republic" have been quick to push a theory that subversive groups loyal to Kiev were responsible for the assassination.
It was very quick to push down into the floorboard gaps, so in theory you could draught-proof a room in minutes.
Like Patel, she is quick to push aside a sense that connoisseurship of sound is elitist: "Quite the opposite, in fact," she says.
ESPN, which broadcast the event, was quick to push the mentorship line, but like the many others who've tried to draw a connection between the two, they struggled to offer any actual evidence.
After 15 minutes, a typical low, left-footed shot from Michu stung the left hand of the Bradford keeper, Matt Duke, but Swansea wing Nathan Dyer was hungry and quick to push the rebound across the line.
That said, Paul Kellogg and the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., which he has guided since 1979 (first as general manager and then as artistic director), were quick to push ahead.
In interviews, they were also quick to push back against the media portrayal of the protesters as a group of unhinged, violent men – especially considering that many women have come to visit the occupation in recent days.
In this country we are too quick to push people forward as the next big thing.
