Angela Duckworth

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

American Psychologist

Mae Jemison

Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.

American Astronaut

Lewis Hamilton

I really like to play to squash, because it's competitive, and I like basketball. I'm friends with a guy in L.A. called Andrew Bynum, who used to play for the L.A. Lakers NBA team. We play together sometimes.

British Driver

Vusi Mahlasela

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

South African Musician

Sarah Silverman

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

American Comedian

Blackbear

It's important to reinvent yourself often, because if you don't, someone else will and squash you like a bug.

American Musician

Jason Statham

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

British Actor

Jahangir Khan

Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.

Pakistani Athlete

Jack Layton

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

Canadian Politician

Jeremy Taylor

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

British Clergyman

Usually mentioned in conversations about sports or fitness activities.

Sports Context

Refers to playing the sport which needs a racket and a special ball.

Requires Equipment

Implies the use of physical pressure to change the object's shape.

Physical Force

Often used when the result of squashing is not desired.

Negative Outcome

Squash in this sense is commonly used in recipes or when talking about meals.

Cooking Ingredient

Some types of squash are seasonal, especially in autumn.

Seasonal Availability

This type of squash is a non-alcoholic beverage suitable for all ages.

Not Alcoholic

The beverage meaning of 'squash' is commonly understood in the UK.

British Usage

Indicates exerting authority to forcefully end something like a protest.

Power Dynamics

Can be used metaphorically to express stopping or ending things non-physically.

Figurative Use

 That's what happens along a concentration gradient, as substances shift passively from a high, or squashed, concentration, to a lower, more comfortable one. How does this relate to ocean currents and thermohaline circulation? Thermo means temperature, and haline means salt because in the real world scenario of the sea,

Making waves: The power...

 So, we're inviting into our lives the voices of people who are not present with us. I think there's something deeply unhealthy about living all the time in schizophonia. The second problem that comes with headphone abuse is compression. We squash music to fit it into our pocket and there is a cost attached to this.

Julian Treasure: Shh!...

 Einstein's stretch and squash trick. So, to map out what gravity is doing to Tom's motion, we need to create a whole load of little patches of space-time, each transformed by different amounts. So that my world line is at a different angle in each one. And then, we're ready to stitch everything together.

The fundamentals of...

 You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. Then you harvest the seeds --

6 ways mushrooms can...

 they're also incredibly good on the ground and this is a really rare trait for a bat species to be able to walk on the ground you can hop and run and this provides a really nice way for the bats to avoid getting squashed or getting captured by the animals that they're

Real-Life Vampires Hunt...

 use the apostrophe. If you're showing possession, leave it out. Otherwise, contractions are pretty straightforward. The apostrophe stands in for missing letters, and lets common phrases squash into a single word. In rare cases, you can have a double contraction,

When to use apostrophes...

 We live in a three-dimensional world where everything has length, width, and height. But what if our world were two-dimensional? We would be squashed down to occupy a single plane of existence, geometrically speaking, of course.

Exploring other...

 Finally, they won the game, hitting the hanging squash so it shattered on the ground. The twins knew their treacherous hosts would not take the loss well. To protect themselves, they enlisted a pair of seers.

The twins who tricked...

 What you do is stretch your block of space-time along the light world line, then squash it by the same amount, but at right angles to the light world line, and abracadabra! Tom's world line has gone vertical,

 per kilometer of river all of them now squash together uncomfortably close they spend most of the day in water not just to protect their skin but to conserve energy especially now when food is so scarce