Average Ground Pressure

Famous quotes containing the words average, ground and/or pressure:

    ... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    Even great towers start at ground level.
    Chinese proverb.

    The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful struggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins—mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!
    Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)