T Quotes
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“The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.”
“The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.”
“The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.”
“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”
“The pressure is always there... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.”
“The pressure is always very high. I am the client, and when I am the client, I need to fight with the photographer or with the stylists or with all the people that are on the set, because I am the only one who has a very specific vision. I always have the pressure, either from myself or from the company. I am a control freak. It's part of my culture. I know that I am still working to build a Frida moment at Gucci.”
“The pressure is hard. You get - the world is only watching every four years, and I think lots of people feel like they have to win in that time frame.”
“The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.”
“The Pressure-
Maybe one day,
after centuries,
we can become brilliant gems
in crystal caves
and we will be immortal after all.”
“The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.”
“The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.”
Source: Yes Please
“The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.”
“The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.”
Source: Killosophy
“The pressure of following traditions blindly only resorts in one not being able to experience their most vivid prospects.”
“The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.”
“The pressure of past tragedies drove him forward - the need to escape reminders of his losses, and the desire to be somewhere other than where he'd been. That, and a smoldering desire for revenge.”
“The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.”
“The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.”
“The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.”
“The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.”
“The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia without a guilt complex; it is the income tax one has to pay for wanting to make others richer.”
Source: The Yogi and the Commissar, and Other Essays
“The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.”
“The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.”
“The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.”
“The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.”
“The pressure on me is nothing compared to Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja, like Ram Gopal Verma, must always fail. The crowd always expects him to fail and it is too much pressure on him. And, he rarely disappoints them.”
“The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.”
“The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.”
“The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.”
“The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.”
“The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear is doing too little. Most have no appreciation that equally terrible mistakes are possible in the other direction—that doing too much could be no less devastating to a person's life.”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.”
“The pressure this generation has because of Social Media, cell phones and the Internet, everything they do is being recorded. They think they are not allowed to make mistakes because their mistakes are exaggerated and blown out of proportion. Their good deeds or work are not recognized, gas-lightened, suppressed and thrown under the carpet. That is why most have anxiety and depression.”
“The pressure to accumulate, the understanding that poverty is
shameful, the double shame of being black and poor, the constant refrain of
materialism coming from every facet of popular culture, the empty fridge, the
disconnected electricity, the insecurity of being a tenant with eviction always just
a few missed paycheques away, the stress and anger of your parents that trickles
down far better than any capital accumulation, the naked injustices that you now
know to be reality and the growing belief that one is indeed all of the negative
stereotypes that the people with the power say you are.
These are the factors that aided my own ego in turning me from a wannabe
Max Planck to a wannabe gangster. I ultimately take responsibility for my own
actions, but there is still a story there and being treated like and presumed to be a
criminal for years before I ever contemplated actually carrying a knife is part of
that story.”
Source: Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“The pressure to be great, not good, is unrelenting. Believing that this pressure will simply disappear once kids arrive on campus seems like wishful thinking.”
Source: What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
“The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.”
“The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.”
“The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.”
“The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.”
“The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”
“The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.”
Source: The TNIV and the Gender-neutral Bible Controversy
“The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.”
Source: The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
“The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.”
“The pressure to leap loudly, radically, and without protection can be just as oppressive as the pressure to stay small. You’re allowed to change quietly. You’re allowed to build cover. You’re allowed to move in stages. You’re allowed to be clever, strategic, and prepared.”
“The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.”
“The pressure to make public retractions of past statements—there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted. And since to retract an idea is impossible, merely verbal, formal sorcery, I see no reason why you shouldn't do as they wish. In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The pressure to perform is relentless in today's workplace - regardless of where you work. We are all being asked to do more with less. I think what we could borrow from the culture of Silicon Valley is "eat your own dog food ." That is an expression used by tech types to mean using what you make or sell.”
“The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.”