Pressure Quotes - Page 36

• One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

  Walter Isaacson

  Air, Thumbs, Journalism

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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• Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your skis carve unless you’re going down the hill leaning forward, and that puts you in a good athletic position to do whatever you want to do on your skis—make quick turns, make long turns, or absorb bumps.

  Ted Ligety

  Long, Athletic, Bumps

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• My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

  Hermann Maier

  Attitude, Racing, Different

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• When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

  Hideo Kojima

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.

  Robert McCracken

  Life, Cities, Suffering

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• They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Brother, Dark

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.64

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• Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

  John Robbins

  Pet, Requirements, Lasts

  John Robbins (2000). “Debugging Applications: Microsoft”

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• Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness.

  Robert Grudin

  Drama, Creativity, Simple

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Business, Way, Firsts

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• My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Rights, Gains

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of work itself, days on which we celebrate work by declaring our freedom. In a manner of speaking we announce that on this one day we may rest from our work, and without pressure or guilt, we may be glad. A holiday is a holy day-meant for rejoicing in God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christmas, Holiday, Holy Days

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• And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

  Stephanie Rice

  Swim, Racing, Able

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

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• I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

  Stephanie Rice

  Team, Thinking, Trying

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

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• The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.

  Alexander Lowen

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Stress

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• The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Air, Scientist, Natural

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.21, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Gone, Olympics

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• We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Mean, Winning, Grace

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• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Moving, Democracy, Violence

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• The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.

  Tokujiro Namikoshi

  Sexy, Spring, Hands

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• Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
  Can't we give ourselves one more chance
  Why can't we give love that one more chance
  Why can't we give love
  Cause love's such an old fashioned word
  and love dares you to care for
  The people on the edge of the night
  And love dares you to change our way of
  Caring about ourselves
  This is our last dance
  This is our last dance
  This is ourselves
  Under pressure

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Caring, Night

  Song: Under Pressure

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• I got involved in cocaine because I needed to lose weight. I felt the pressure living here. I took it to wake me up and keep me moving.

  Jessica Hahn

  Moving, Wake Up, Weight

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• The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Adversity, Men, Differences

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• Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Blood, Fasting, Cholesterol

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.40, Charisma Media

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• The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

  Michael Strahan

  Team, Winning, Focus

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• What helped me was working with my breathing, specifically, using my breathing to stay sharp and focused under pressure and then cool and calm when the pressure was relieved.

  Glen Hanlon

  Hockey, Breathing, Focus

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