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Quotes about Pressure

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.
— Ezra Furman
I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
— Mike Posner
As a bowler our job is to create doubts in the minds of the batsmen.
— Wasim Akram
The Need to Win When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets — He is out of his mind. His skill has not changed, But the prize Divides him. He cares, He thinks more of winning Than of shooting — And the need to win Drains him of power.
— Thomas Merton
The tighter you squeeze the less you have.
— Thomas Merton
In a 1977 interview with Christianity Today, Billy Graham said, "One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less. People have pressured me into speaking to groups when I should have been studying and preparing.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
Gemstones are often produced naturally and quickly too when a volcano erupts. This is due to the rapid heat and pressure. At Mount St. Helens, which blew its top in 1980 and went off again in 1982, a magnificent array of gemstones was produced! The Mount St. Helens Gift shop website openly states: Volcanoes are an incubator for many of the World's treasures. Other gems commonly associated with volcanic origins include Emerald, Diamond, Garnet, Peridot, and Topaz.
— Ken Ham
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
— Carl Jung
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
— Anonymous
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
— John F. Kennedy
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
— Mark Twain
People want you to fail.
— Lady Gaga