Famous quotes containing the words absolute and/or pressure:
“To be a successful father ... there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Today’s pressures on middle-class children to grow up fast begin in early childhood. Chief among them is the pressure for early intellectual attainment, deriving from a changed perception of precocity. Several decades ago precocity was looked upon with great suspicion. The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult; thus the phrase “early ripe, early rot!””
—David Elkind (20th century)