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“Can I overcome pressure? Yes. This is always my first thought.”

Firsts Overcoming Pressure

Author:Rickson Gracie

“True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?”

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

“The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.”

People Giving May Persons Faces Process Sides Trouble Succeed Giving Up Benefits Findings Overcoming Pressure Adversity Trials Bitter Best Things Coming Out Sweetness Persevere

Author:John C. Maxwell

“All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.”

Energy Air Overcoming Pressure Flight Air Pressure

Author:Otto Lilienthal

“Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.”

Ought Performances Overcoming Pressure Obstacles Diligent

Book:What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Source: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

“The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.”

Mind Grows Struggle Integrity Overcoming Pressure Independent Rewards Painful Satisfaction Being True Thinker Portions Sole Incessant

Author:Howard Mumford Jones

“Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure”

Overcoming Pressure Unprepared

Author:Lou Holtz

“You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can help you overcome temptation. You can also help others because they will feel your strength. Let them know about your standards by consistently living themNo one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.”

“If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.”

Ifs Want Expectations Overcoming Pressure Gravity

Author:Mesut Ozil

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

Source: Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949

“Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.”

“Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.”

Giving Mind Motivation Winning Sports Differences Losing Overcoming Pressure Peace Of Mind Thank God Pipe Softball Winning And Losing

Author:Evander Holyfield

“It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.”

Mean Body Levels Struggle Forever Overcoming Difficulty Pressure Workers Rate Reasonable Wages Fringe Skirts

Author:Florence Kelley

“Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.”

Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason