Quotes About Pressure

There were women who fussed about their homes as if they thought life were a permanent examination where they would be found wanting.

time sickness," the "obsessive belief that 'time is getting away, that there isn't enough of it'" (qtd. in Honoré 3).

under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype.

You're in a situation where you have two very important responsibilities that both have a deadline that is impossible to meet. You cannot accomplish both. How do you handle that situation?

The answer, of course, is neither. No one is failing anyone. It's just that the very thing that makes elite schools such wonderful places for those at the top makes them very difficult places for everyone else.

were barely more than toddlers. The game was broadcast on Canadian national television. Up and down

situation is. The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger.* But he says nothing. Nor does anyone else for the next five minutes. There's radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries

Solomon was faced day in, day out with a version of the same problem that had faced Neville Chamberlain and the British diplomatic service in the fall of 1938: he was asked

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Some people are like popcorn: they will only succeed when under heat or pressure.

Nothing can be more dreadful than the burden of failure on one's shoulders..

Diamonds are the result of extreme pressures. So is success.

A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it.

The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond.

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

Nothing incites failure more than success.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.