Quotes About Pressure

The executives that ran Lehman Bros. into the ground several years ago had a macho culture that abhorred personal time. One executive was pressured to go to the office while his wife was actually delivering a baby.[18] Whether such assiduity resulted in a better work product has now been pretty definitively ascertained.

They were rocketing along a country lane where there was no cell phone service, propelled by the grouchy Mogul's constant, ill-tempered exhortations. "Faster!" yelled the Mogul, who was used to yelling at people he felt entitled to yell at. "I don't want to be late to this fucking thing!

Many women feel like a failure as a woman.

Haven't you enough money?' For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.

As all these barriers to single living and personal autonomy gradually eroded, society's ability to pressure people into marrying, or keep them in a marriage against their wishes, was drastically curtailed. People no longer needed to marry in order to construct successful lives or long-lasting sexual relationships. With that, thousands of years of tradition came to an end.

Males are also damaged by gender expectations that have changed enough to erode many old sources of masculine self-esteem but not enough to lessen the pressures on them to maintain or reinvent manly behaviors and images.29

I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again.

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

This is a worse that feels too big.

Só queria que Deus, ou meus pais, ou minha irmã, ou alguém, me dissesse o que há de errado comigo. Que me dissesse como ser diferente de uma forma que faça sentido. Que fizesse tudo isso parar. E desaparecer. Sei que é errado, porque a responsabilidade é minha, e sei que as coisas pioram antes de melhorar porque é o que diz meu psiquiatra, mas essa fase pior está grande demais para mim.

You know… a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.

failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware

He generated maximum anxiety over matters of minimum significance.

Don't do it," the patient said. "Even if she wants it, don't let her do it. I used to be a model. You don't want your kid to be a model.

There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.' (Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)

suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.

El futuro prometedor es como una piedra preciosa, hipnotiza pero, luego de un tiempo, su peso podría hundirte.

As a result, in more than three dimensions the sun would not be able to exist in a stable state with its internal pressure balancing the pull of gravity. It would either fall apart or collapse to form a black hole, either of which could ruin your day.

if one neglected pressure, a uniform spherically systematic symmetric star would contract to a single point of infinite density. Such a point is called a singularity.

Der Weg aus dieser Falle ist der gleiche, wie der aus jeder brenzligen Lage: Wir schlagen so hart und so schnell mit dermaßen viel Feuerkraft zu, dass die sich wünschen, sie hätten sich einen anderen Job ausgesucht.

He was the sort of man who demanded results yesterday but then forgot to ask for them tomorrow.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),...