Pressure Quotes - Page 29

• When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me

  Shannon Miller

  Growing Up, Eye, Cameras

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• Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Running, Agency, Hands

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.

  Lucius Beebe

  Philosophy, Fall, Dark

  Lucius Morris Beebe (1966). “The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq”

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• The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Tennis, Feelings, Cards

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• As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Years, Giving, Goal

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• But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Simple, Night, Tragedy

  Hugh MacLennan (2009). “Watch that Ends the Night”, p.266, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

  Thelma Drake

  Iraq, America, People

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• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  Major Owens

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.

  Julian Schwinger

  Editors, Rejection, Criticism

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• Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

  James R. Schlesinger

  Arbitrary, Remarkable, Can Do

  James R. Schlesinger (1968). “Planning-programming-budgeting: Uses and Abuses of Analysis”

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• To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

  Norman Borlaug

  Lakes, Luxury, Rivers

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• I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

  Herman Wouk

  Men, Machinery, Under Pressure

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• And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Two, Acting, Sitting

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• We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.

  Dean Ornish

  Teacher, Voice, Intuition

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2010). “Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs orSurgery”, p.110, Ivy Books

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• Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

  Harvey Mackay

  Preparation, Way, Looks

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• The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.

  Kay Coles James

  Sex, Hard Work, Writing

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• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Hermann Maier

  Motivational, Pain, Athlete

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• Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

  Isobel Miller Kuhn

  Heart, Missionary, Crumbling

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• This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Past, Temptation, Faces

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• The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.

  Harold Innis

  Communication, Essentials, Elements

  "Changing Concepts of Time". Book by Harold Innis, p. 15, 1952.

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• It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.

  Joanna Macy

  Pain, Home, Play

  "World as Lover, World as Self". Book by Joanna Macy, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

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• All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Wings, Bird, Needs

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• I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple weeks, mainly as a different focus to touring. I didn't have any expectations or pressures with what would come out of those two weeks, and think 'Tough Love' sums this up. It was me experimenting with my voice and having fun with it. It just felt right and kind of dictated the route of the next album, much like 'Devotion' did on my first album

  Jessie Ware

  Running, Couple, Fun

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• I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

  Frank Lampard

  Years, Relax, Use

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Home, Media, Fans

  "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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