#pressures

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 human morality. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#consequences #dangers #does #human #man

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#indifferent #judges #law #opinion #pressures

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#about #acted #around #felt #going

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man. ↗

— Megan Fox

#also #based #because #being #bisexual

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#assumptions #capable #capacity #caught #creative

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#challenge #commercial #control #demonstrate #manage

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#back #constitutional #effective #europe #force

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#building #business #chief #chief executive #companies

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#balancing #base #books #building #business

I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#being #daughter #director #ethic #father