Systemic Pressure Quotes

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no room to say, "This is stupid."

There's certain classes you have to take, certain things you have to do, certain money you must have. Then, if you listen to the counselors and social workers and everybody else talking at you, you would think that once you got out of high school and college, life would be beautiful. But it's not.

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.