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• By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Time, Moving, Games

  Samuel Reshevsky (1948). “Reshevsky's best games of chess: (Formerly titled: Reshevsky on chess)”, Dover Publications

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• The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Eye, Bird, Owl

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, People, Goal

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Aug 28, 2012

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• While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, The End Of The Day, Return

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• Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Successful, Being Successful, Ifs

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• But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Thinking, Reform, Imf

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• Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Competition

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• The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Conformity, Dangerous, Constant

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration.

  Peter Høeg

  Children, Mean, Dark

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• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  Kamisese Mara

  Heart, Aggravation, Deterioration

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• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inward, Cosmos, Looks

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, People, Agendas

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Oct 14, 2014

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• The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  People, Transformation, Christ

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• A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Strong, Player

  Les Echos interview, www.sec.gov. January 30, 2006.

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• Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

  William H. Whyte

  Tree, Citizens, Next

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• No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Matter, Habit, Situation

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• Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

  David W Augsburger

  Happiness, Feelings, Purpose

  David W. Augsburger (1982). “From Here to Maturity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Stress, Yoga

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• I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Teacher, Difficulty, Persist

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• If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

  Miroslav Volf

  Exit, Reconcile, Ifs

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• I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

  Colin Greenwood

  Play, Alcohol, Volume

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• If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

  Mehmet Oz

  Blood, Knowing, Company

  "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2009.

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• There’s a lot of pressure playing something that existed for so many years before you were involved, and already has a fan base. I approached it by doing it as well as I can.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Years, Fans, Wells

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• When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

  Ron Kauk

  Climbing, Sponsors, Climbs

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• It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Sleep, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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