Quotes About Pressure

in order that the lower edge of each stone should hitch like a pawl into a ratchet cut into the top of the walls; hence no stone can press on the one below it, so as to cause a cumulative pressure all down the roof; and each stone is separately upheld by the side walls which it lies across.27 And this was the work of a people whose civilization had only recently emerged from neolithic hunter-gathering?

I've seen that look on cabinet ministers," Merton observed quietly. "When they were stuffed full of too many secrets.

When somebody pushes, pushes, and pushes you into a corner, pretty soon you're not going to want to be in that corner anymore.

The stillness was so complete that I could hear myself swallowing. They wanted me to give them something, and they expected it to be good.

Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

I had to go out and give my team a chance. I didn't want to be remembered as the guy blowing the World Series.

If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.

If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

As a goalkeeper, if you make 10 world-class saves but then miss one shot, or you let in a pass, you're there in the highlights afterwards - and, let's be honest: that is what most people see.

If you play at a world-class team like Chelsea, you have to perform every day.

I'm a guy who's in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

I think I didn't realise the commitment that came after winning the Worlds.