14 Quotes Tagged: pressure

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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway, American author and journalist (1899–1961)

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The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Alain de Botton, Swiss-born British philosopher and writer

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"Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all, by the vastness of the possibilities, by the myriad of perspectives available to you. You feel so pressed down sometimes, by all the unresolved questions, by all the information you are supposed to process and hold, by the urgency of things. You are overcome by powerful emotions, trying to make it all "work out" somehow, trying to get everything done "on time," trying to resolve things so fast, even trying not to try at all.
You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it? You are exhausted; you long to rest. And that is not a failing of yours, not a horrible mistake, but something wonderful to embrace!"

If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a long time, and now its your own turn to get a share from her itching tunnel.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

Brian Tracy, American motivational speaker and writer

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No pressure, no diamonds.

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)

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Pressure makes diamonds

George S. Patton, United States Army general (1885–1945)

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Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

"I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. "Have you thought of a story?" I was asked every morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative"

They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.

Hyman G. Rickover, United States admiral; Father of the Nuclear Navy (1900–1986)

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