Quotes About Pressure

A rich man may be free on an income of a million net. A poor man may be free because nobody cares what he does. But a fellow in my position has to sweat it out until he drops dead.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.

No, but I feel as if a big stone is pressing me here.

You don't like the way the study of an expensive drug for blood pressure is going? A nonissue - just stop the study before the results reach statistical significance.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

You never realize how short a month is until you have to pay alimony.

I haven't lost a battle yet but I am tensefor the first losing.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.

While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.