Pressure Quotes

We're constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren't any better than us. I'm as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the supermarket and I instantly downgrade that lady to Shitty Parent status. I feel pressure to live up to a parental ideal that no one probably has ever achieved. I feel pressure to raise a group of human beings that will help America kick the shit out of Finland and South Korea in the world math rankings. I feel pressure to shield my kids from the trillion pages of hentai donkey porn out there on the Internet. I feel pressure to make the insane amounts of money needed for a supposedly 'middle-class' upbringing for the kids, an upbringing that includes a house and college tuition and health care and so many other expenses that you have to be a multimillionaire to afford it. PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE.

Through most of human history, our ancestors had children shortly after puberty, just as the members of all nonhuman species do to this day. Whether we like the idea or not, our young ancestors must have been capable of providing for their offspring, defending their families from predators, cooperating with others, and in most other respects functioning fully as adults. If they couldn't function as adults, their young could not have survived, which would have meant the swift demise of the human race. The fact that we're still here suggests that most young people are probably far more capable than we think they are. Somewhere along the line, we lost sight of – and buried – the potential of our teens.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

God helps those who persevere.

If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

Plodding wins the race.

Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.

Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

The only way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.

Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Make haste slowly.

Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

I had thought that successful people, wealthy people, prosperous people, don’t stretch themselves and they don’t live a life of pressure. Well I was wrong.

At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would otherwise never exist.And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can't contain it

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.