Pressure Quotes - Page 8

Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

I strive on pressure.

There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.

It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

The more people learn about them (Obama and Hillary) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.

Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.

I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.

Pressure... I love it.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.