Quotes About Pressure

The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Sometimes living with him is like being told to hold my breath as a matter of life and death - but never being told when to let that breath out. So I don't know what to do for the best. To let out that breath and suffer the consequences or to keep holding on no matter what it does to me.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

I have the Tony Romo of dicks. It can squeak out a win on the road in Buffalo but when you put it in the big game under pressure, it fumbles.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond,

I'm doing you a favor," replied the colonel with a smile of his own. "Just remember what Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds." "Well, yeah," said the major in amusement. "If you're a lump of coal. If you're a human being, that same pressure turns you into splatter. Like a bug on a windshield.

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond, becoming battle hardened.

Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds.

An unknown threat lurking in the shadows can wear a man down faster than a known one.

I know it's like drinking from a fire-hose.

My father let me think about this and then asked me what I'd do the next time a test came around. How would I prepare for it? It occurred to me that if I knew I really couldn't earn an A, what was the point of killing myself? I told my father, and he agreed. In fact, he told me that soon the entire class would be getting Cs, and then Ds. And eventually Fs. Socialism at work.

Learning that you can't control the other person's reaction, and that it can be destructive to try, can be incredibly liberating. It not only gives the other person the space to react however they need to, but also takes a huge amount of pressure off you. You will learn things about yourself based on their reaction, but if you are prepared to learn, you'll feel free from the desperate need for their reaction to go one certain way.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.

We could all work up a nervous breakdown in thirty seconds, if we really wanted to.

Anti-Semites (American Jews included) pressure Israel to correct its ego and show the whole world their method of correction.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

His famous example was that of the grocer who places in his shop window, among his vegetables, a sign that reads, "Workers of the world, unite!" Havel argued that the grocer did it not because he believed in the slogan but because it was easier to do it than to not. "If he were to refuse," Havel wrote, "there would be trouble."35 By placing the sign in his shop front, the grocer is effectively saying, "I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient.

Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.