Pressure Quotes - Page 30

• Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in over-estimating this, and representing a partial statement of truth as the whole truth. Geology, like many human beings, suffered from convulsions in its infancy; now, in its later years, I apprehend an attack of pressure on the brain.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Science, Thinking, Rocks

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• Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Struggle, Eye, Views

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• Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

  Edward Abbey

  Taken, People, Important

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• They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

  George MacDonald

  Use, May, Aviation

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• Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

  Charles Koch

  Success, Leadership, Sacrifice

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• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Years, People

  "President and President Putin Discuss Strong U.S.-Russian Partnership". Statement in press release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 24, 2005.

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• Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Commitment, Yield

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• When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.

  Robert Spencer

  Lying, Order, May

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• Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

  Jon Kyl

  Doctors, Blood, People

  "CNN Anchor Completely Misquotes Sen. Kyl in Soft Interview of Planned Parenthood President". www.newsbusters.org. April 8, 2011.

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• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  Veronica Roth

  Teenager, Moral High Ground, Stressed

  "Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

  Saul Alinsky

  Events, Different, Purpose

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.

  Clara Hughes

  Sports, Letting Go, Strong

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• I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.

  Jimmy Page

  Exhausted, Under Pressure

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• Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

  Theodor Herzl

  Home, Political, Shifting

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• My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long hair, and everyone is too pretty. Theres so much pressure on this one show, the first of its kind, to represent every dyke or lesbian in the world. But [lesbian viewers] are not going to be disappointed, because by the end of the first season [there are] a lot of diverse characters.

  Leisha Hailey

  Character, Hair, Long

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• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down

  Wayne Rooney

  People, Trying, United

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• I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

  Joe Manganiello

  Sex, Thinking, Men

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• I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind.

  Hicham El Guerrouj

  Crazy, Athlete, Self Confidence

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• I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious.

  Max Cleland

  Political, Information, Serious

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• The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

  Umberto Eco

  Ideas, Mind, Doe

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Drawing, Long, People

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• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Would Be, Stories, Facts

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• The more people learn about them (Obama and Hillary) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.

  Joe Biden

  People, Support, Handle

  "EXCLUSIVE: The White Male Candidate Joe Biden, the Only Adult In The Room: 'We all love the idea of a Black or Woman President!'" by Blake Fleetwood, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2007.

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• Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

  Nick Carter

  Fame, Responsible

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