Pressure Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Commitment, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to withstand the pressure of the changing times, and to decided in what way the fact of our being Muslims will affect the course of our lives: in other words, we must find out whether Islam can offer us precise directives for the formation of our society, and whether its inspiration is strong enough in us to translate these directives into practice.

  Muhammad Asad

  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

  Rima Fakih

  Jobs, Queens, Party

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• Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

  Bill Bonner

  Running, Adversity, Men

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• Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.

  Betsey Johnson

  Dream, Color, Drawing

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Months, Groups

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Believe, Destiny

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

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• The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

  Brian Tracy

  Silence, Use, Selling

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• Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences
  on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

  Andrew Lansley

  Powerful, Social Pressure, Peer Pressure

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• Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Weekend, Up Early

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• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Men, Years

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• Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you.

  Sizzla

  Nine, Months, Mama

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• I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.

  Alfie Allen

  Sports, School, Love Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
  pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
  grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed.

  Wanda Urbanska

  Book, Home, Thoughtful

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• When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

  Zayn Malik

  People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

  Liam Payne

  Thinking, Sometimes, Realising

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

  Stan Coveleski

  Baseball, Yesterday, Worry

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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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• In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Clothes, Numbers

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.8, Full Moon Publications

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• I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

  Tiger Woods

  Determination, Mean, Play

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• What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Grace, Definitions, Dignity

  Quoted in New Yorker, 30 Nov. 1929 (profile by Dorothy Parker

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• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Happiness, Long, Relief

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• It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

  Glenn Morrison

  Pain, Rugby League, Trying

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