Quotes About Pressure

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, Hey fatty-lose some weight. By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of health and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.

No one tells me better stories, he assured me. I was aware of the point at which a compliment becomes a trap, because you are expected to keep doing the thing you are praised for; resentment will follow when you stop.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. - Two Kinds

If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped off. Something between those two feelings.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

Perhaps we have built a false concept of wholeness and, under the pressure of an artificial unity, people like June explode and fly in all directions. Some day we may be reassembled into a more truthful whole.

Women [are] dwarfed not developed by competition. . . . What men did not want to do, they said was women's sphere. If a woman is natural[,] a man does not want her. This makes of woman a liar and a pretender. A woman is an actress who plays to an audience of men. They know what will be applauded and what will be hissed.

Some women are bred from the beginning to be perfect specimens for men

Tennis is the loneliest sport

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Klansmen were notorious for 'beating hell out of their wives," writes reporter Jack Nelson in Terror in the Night: The Klaris Campaign Against the Jews, "and their wives would complain to the FBI and request that their husbands be arrested. Instead the agents would inform the Klansmen of their wives' complaints, generating pressure within the families that the FBI could exploit.

Why are they all trying to make me into a saint? Oh God! Oh God! I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint.

The cinema image is the observation of a phenomenon passing through time. Time becomes the very foundation of cinema...Time exerts a pressure which runs through the shot ...Just as a quivering reed can tell you about the current or water pressure of a river, in the same way we know the movement of time as it flows through the shot.

Robert said, This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade. Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+

Even if there's a fire raging (deadline, release date, trade show demo, etc.), you don't want to be the first one to make a mess.

One of the worst things that happened to her was that she was put on a pedestal which didn't allow her to develop in the direction that she wanted but one which has forced her to be concerned about image and perfection.

When I was at JP Morgan, they burdened me with assets until I broke." "What do you mean?" "You start chasing lousy businesses just to put the money to work." "How?" I asked. "Because there are only so many good investments out there.

Something inside me squeezes up tight like a sponge that is being wrung out

Pourquoi toutes les mères étaient-elles si impatientes que leurs filles aient un petit ami ? Comme si la vraie vie ne commençait qu'avec les garçons.

If you ran out of ways to please and you had no family money, you went to law school.

That's what happens when your parents want you to be a physicist.)