Pressure Quotes - Page 35

• All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Zero, Mistake

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• Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Government, Order, Equilibrium

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• The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Tire, Checks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

  Debora Spar

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad
  interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they
  were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to
  enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning
  abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests
  themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of
  competition.

  Dan Smoot

  Powerful, Government, Wind

  Dan Smoot (1973). “The BUSINESS END of Government”

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• Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

  Fatou Bensouda

  War, Political, Criminals

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• With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

  Judith Guest

  Who I Am, Feels, My Friends

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• Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Art, Complaining, Needs

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• Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

  Jerry Harrison

  Thinking, Creative, Negative

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• There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

  Niall Horan

  Albums, Bigs

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• Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Squad, Faces

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.113, Penguin

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• Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself

  Michael Phelps

  Thinking, Long, Want

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• I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

  Jeff Daniels

  Stars, Actors, Bigs

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• I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

  Lindy West

  Broken Heart, Believe, Bad Relationship

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• Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Organization, Discipline

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• Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Years, Leader, Climate

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• At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

  Mats Sundin

  Hockey, Player, Levels

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• He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

  Duke Snider

  Baseball, Unbearable, Enormous

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• Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.

  Donald Margulies

  Writing, Doe, Needs

  Donald Margulies (2012). “Collected Stories”, p.16, Theatre Communications Group

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• In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Morning, Motivation

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• Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

  Paul Collier

  Law, Peer Pressure, Peers

  Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.139, Oxford University Press

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• Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

  David Nalbandian

  Player, Pay, Sometimes

  "David Nalbandian attacks ATP after kick gifts title to Marin Cilic" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The only way to handle pressure is to apply it.

  Darrelle Revis

  Way, Handle

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• Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

  Kara Walker

  Ideas, White, Soul

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• No! I don't feel any pressure right now!

  Tito Sotto

  Feels, Right Now

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