Quotes About Pressure

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

this is the difference between you native Italians and those of us called Italian Americans. You live a balanced life. You work, you eat, you rest. We don't. We can't. We live as though we have something to prove. There's never enough time, we eat on the run, and we sleep as little as possible. We believe the one who works the hardest wins." The

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

We should give chaos pride of place once a year or so, designating occasions on which we can be briefly exempted from the two greatest pressures of secular adult life: having to be rational and having to be faithful.

Our fear of failing at various tasks would likely be much less were it not for our awareness of how harshly failure tends to be viewed and interpreted by others.

He considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence.

Academic stress-related pre-birth suicides

He plans to use every low-down technique he knows to loosen up the suspect, everything from good cop/bad cop to a four-pound bag of oranges that damage the internal organs but don't leave a mark upon the skin. Or, failing that, he'll Google him. Sure

This is Resolute Thread. The more pressure applied, the stronger it gets. It's very rare. They say it was made from the stomach lining of an emperor dragon, over 2000 years ago." "Was it?" "No, it's just really strong thread.

the mantra of 'you can be anything' creates more pain than pleasure.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.