Ofpressure Quotes

#1. I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#2. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.

Lao-Tzu

#3. When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Seung Sahn

#4. 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.
'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'
Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.

Christopher Moore

#5. The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

William Shakespeare

#6. When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her.
- Ryan

Elizabeth Scott

#8. Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.

John Calvin

#9. Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Bill Vaughan