Pressured Quotes

• Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.504, Scholastic UK

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• Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

  Diane Wakoski

  Language, Resilient, Stills

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.

  Mel Gibson

  Love, Scary, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Women, Grief

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• It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

  Hyman Rickover

  Nature, Science, Technology

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

  Eric Thomas

  Positive, Thinking, Inner Strength

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2012

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• If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

  Wayne Dyer

  Orange Juice, Faults, Persons

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• My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

  Emilia Fox

  Parent, Acting, Advise

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• All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

  Richard Stallman

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want, for your own reasons, without being forced or pressured into wearing what's considered societally required because of your sex.

  Laura Bates

  Sex, Believe, Mean

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• Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Stories, Done, Truthful

  "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material

  Sri Aurobindo

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.30, Lotus Press

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• I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

  Jane Monheit

  Musician, Band, Use

  Toronto Star, November 11, 2010.

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• Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Years, Leader, Climate

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• For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Devil, Backbone, Neurotic

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

  Lance Armstrong

  Ideas

  "Lance Armstrong's Flawed Confession". www.newyorker.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I never allow myself to be pressured.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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• I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

  Kate Thornton

  Thinking, Should, Debit

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.

  Jennifer Phang

  Letting Go, Perfect, Effort

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 'm very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't really have any concept of who looks at my work online. I don't think it's viewed that much online.

  Frances Stark

  Thinking, Looks, Online

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.

  Portia de Rossi

  Get Well, Mean, Insecure

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Mother, Perspective, Lucky

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Thinking, Example, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.

  Karan Bajaj

  Philosophy, Trying, Would Be

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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