Pressure Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

  Joe Bastianich

  Blood, Defense, Lines

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• She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

  Kristan Higgins

  Smile, Heart, Kind

  Kristan Higgins (2012). “Somebody To Love”, p.331, HQN Books

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• Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Errors, Feelings

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• From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

  Purnima Mane

  Husband, Needs, Demand

  "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Recovery, Perfect, Waiting

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• The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, Self, Groups

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.159, Basic Books

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• Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

  Orrin Hatch

  Hero, Taken, Fighting

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• I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Athlete, Fighter

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• It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Afterlife, White

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.156, Vintage

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• The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Jobs, Pain, Home

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

  E. B. White

  Truth, Giving, Thrill

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.

  Nicholas Stern

  New York, Islands, Years

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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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• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  Cameron Diaz

  Mean, Facts, Needs

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2005.

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• A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

  David R. Brower

  Clubs, Disability, Resignation

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• Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

  Nick Rahall

  Years, Community, Demand

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• But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Player, Thinking

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

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• A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Running, Knowing

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• In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.

  Derek Rydall

  Believe, Order, Ego

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• Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

  Peter York

  People, Feelings, Kind

  "The man and the marabou" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Children, Childhood, Add

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• The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

  Mike Leigh

  Perspective, Good Things, Accepting

  "Mike Leigh at the NFT". Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.

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