#pressure

Hermits have no peer pressure. ↗

— Steven Wright

#peer #peer pressure #pressure

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#attached #been #director #directors #i

I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great. ↗

— Heather Graham

#could #great #i #life #like

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #behavior #blood #blood pressure #changes

Pressure is calming to the nervous system. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#nervous #nervous system #pressure #system

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am. ↗

— Judith Guest

#feel #friends #i #i am #other

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks. ↗

— William Hague

#ask #because #colonel #coming #days

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. ↗

— David Halberstam

#book #driving #easier #get #marketing

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses. ↗

— Lee Haney

#after #blood #blood pressure #cancer #cleansing