Pressure Quotes - Page 12

• It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Fate, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Struggle, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.

  Rachel Maddow

  Simple, People, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists.

  Thomas Pogge

  Army, Views, Careers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is on balance desirable to encourage Universal Jurisdiction, and to create pressure from below to make application of such jurisdiction as consistent as possible. I think this will act as a deterrent in some situations, although this impact will never be acknowledged by those affected as it would only embolden civil society to intensify its pressures.

  Richard A. Falk

  Thinking, Impact, Balance

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Attachment, Interesting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Strong, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I find that if I hold your hand, it transfers an energy first. I have a sense of how you feel. That's important to me trying to become another person. I have a lot pressure to bring a character to life in any kind of real sense.

  Morgan Freeman

  Real, Character, Hands

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, Fighting, Russia

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. April 2, 2017.

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• When we talk about the UN, what are we really talking about? We are talking about my country, your country, other countries and their collective will to stand together and apply pressure or offer incentives to steer things in the right direction. When the nations of the world come together, with collective will, on an issue and they speak with a united voice, they have a much greater impact. When there is division, then the impact is much, much less.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Voice, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's just something about this job as president every president faces, you know, that you think one thing going in and then the pressures of the job or the realities of the world, you know, are different than you thought.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Thinking, Reality

  "George W. Bush On Immigration Overhaul Efforts, Anti-AIDS Efforts". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 13, 2017.

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• I like pressure. It's that kind of thing that will actually help me perform to the best of my abilities. It will help me with training. It'll help with everything.

  CM Punk

  Training, Helping, Kind

  Source: www.ign.com

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• There's a bit of pressure when you're reimagining something so iconic and loved. But the only way you can really do it is completely reinvent it.

  Rupert Grint

  Reimagining, Way, Iconic

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I put a lot of pressure on myself early in my life, like, "You have to be perfect; you can't do anything." You basically can't show any emotion and speak up. And then I realized that I have to live my life for myself.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Perfect, Emotion, Speak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's pressure on every mayor who's trying to do the right thing by their people, and that's the pressure of a capitalist society, which does not want to give up a dime. They basically want to constrain the people in every way they can.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• I don't need to put extra pressure on myself right now. The important thing is for me to stay healthy, in practice, and just keep on the hours. You just never know when it's going to happen for you.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Practice, Healthy, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure, which often comes from some deep psychological conflict.

  James Lasdun

  Character, Interesting, Wicked

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times, when I'm like, "I have a new piece, I'm excited about it, I'm reading all these books about it, but there's not a lot of time pressure, and I'm financially stable enough right now that I don't have to be trying to get another job." But that's so rare.

  Annie Baker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

  Tama Janowitz

  Lying, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

  Ali Velshi

  People, News, Television

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I direct and have a lot of pressure, it teaches me to laugh at stuff. I think that comes also from sports, from combat sports, where you've got to learn to laugh at it and take it in stride. Otherwise, you just can't deal with it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Sports, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

  Tori Amos

  Vintage, Phenomenal, Industry

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• Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

  Desi Arnaz

  Drinking, Needs

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• I mean, there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Freedom Of Speech, World

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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