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Quotes of the Day for 9 February 2005 - Pressure

As I suggested yesterday, today's theme is pressure. Last Friday I started the process of upgrading a server for one of my clients. A series of setbacks meant that I really didn't do much besides work on it until Tuesday afternoon, and with the staff unable to do much of their work until the server was back online, the pressure was significant. There was some adrenaline involved as well, but I don't have any quotes on that subject!

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
     - Henry Alfred Kissinger

I'm so used to pressure I'm afraid if it stopped I'd get the bends.
     - Walter Headley, Chief of Police, Miami

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word, the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
     - George Santayana, 1863 - 1952

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he a contemplative purely, he would not write.
     - Elizabeth Bowen, 1899 - 1973

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
     - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

I don't do anything without pressure. A physical therapist said, 'Get in tune with your body.' But if I listened to my body, I'd stay in bed all morning.
     - Stan Pottinger

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