Quotes About Pressure

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

Mudah untuk memberi semua orang yang mereka inginkan. Yang mereka harapkan. Masalahnya, dengan melakukan itu kau lupa di mana kau sebenarnya di mulai dan di mana kau yang palsu, sosok yang mencoba menjadi segalanya bagi semua orang, berakhir.

Every book I read and every movies I watched seems to give out the same message: high school is the worst experience you can ever have.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed...

She stared into the distance and tried to think, honestly and properly, about her life: up here where it was clearer, and she could breathe, and she wasn't surrounded by a million people in a great hurry dashing or grabbing or shouting or achieving things in their lives that they plastered all over Facebook and Instagram, making you feel inadequate.

Even paradise can be suffocating

Nothing like high school. It's a lot of pressure. And . . . I didn't think you'd be so far away." I

It's do or die. D-day.

Peter's mom told me he was talking about transferring to UNC next year. She wanted me to break up with him before he messed up his life for me." "Damn! Peter's mom is kind of a bitch!" "She didn't use those exact words, but that was the gist of it.

I can feel tears and panic building up inside me. If she asks me another question, it will be too much, and I'll cry.

So I lay there, sweating and sizzling like a piece of chicken on a grill.

Suddenly it feels like every decision we make is so momentous, and I'm so scared to make the wrong one.

Kavinsky's not going to pressure you to have sex if you don't want to. If you minus the fact that he dated the devil, he's not a total dummy. He's kind of decent, actually.

He's not doing well with this sleep deprivation. There's a reason it's used as a tool of torture. But still, everyone I know is trying to sleep less. Insomnia as a badge of honor. Proof that you are paying attention.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

It followed that if a man was to maintain his position, the woman of the house could not be seen to go out to work. (One consequence of the need to preserve the appearance of prosperity on one income was that the husband and father figure was obliged to work longer and longer hours to earn the means to keep the family afloat, becoming in the process the distant, cold figure of caricature.)

Lucy wondered where she might be at that exact moment if she hadn't spent so much time trying to be the right version of herself for those around her.

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

Making decisions was for him an adaptive reflex, a coping mechanism that pressure only honed and energized, and he'd reacted to the news from Brazil as he would to any emergency, gathering whatever information was available, then digesting as much of it as circumstances allowed before settling upon a logical and systematic plan of action.

The hardest part about being a clown, it seems to me, would be that you're constantly referred to as a clown. "Who was that clown?" "I'm not working with that clown. Did you hire that clown?" "The guy's a clown!"

My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Every woman should have pearls," Mom said, "to remind ourselves that grit under pressure becomes beauty.