Due Applied Pressure

Famous quotes containing the words due, applied and/or pressure:

“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)

“A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“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)