Quotes About Pressure

But the interesting cases are those where the conflict remains obstinately in place however much we ponder the problem. These are the cases where we are tempted to conclude that "intuition cannot be trusted." In these situations we need to improve our intuition, to debug it, but the pressure on us is to abandon intuition and rely on equations instead.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

To be perfectly honest, I think she became sick of Society during her debut season. Better to lock herself in her room with her books than to spend her life paying calls and going to balls.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go!

Hailey shook her head. "Nobody cares about the meatloaf, Paige. Mitch is in town for six weeks and you could do with a little less tension. Don't want you killing anybody. "So what you're saying is that I have to have sex with Mitch to save lives?" "Absolutely.

Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said. "If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up.

I don't know if you have ever experienced the suffocating confinement of others' expectations on your life, but it is a very difficult burden to bear.

She finally cannot stand the pressure of the gUilt, and she kills herself.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

He would wear the ornery, stick-wielding Penguin on his chest and carry the expectations for saving hockey on his shoulders.

In the second period, he hit the crossbar, and the fans chanted in singsong, "Overrated!" and "Parise's better!

Storming was what took place in the frantic days at the end of each month as each enterprise tried to fulfil its monthly plan.

The conversation went on for another half hour, before this man's girlfriend, who had not said much of anything until then, remarked, Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.

As I was watching, I thought about how unfair it was that she and I had to think about having kids—that we had to sit here talking about it, feeling like if we didn't have children, we would always regret it. It suddenly seemed like a huge conspiracy to keep women in their thirties—when you finally have some brains and some skills and experience—from doing anything useful with them at all.

What a chicken I was. I couldn't bear any aspect of living. Especially that old custom: that you have to live a better life than everyone else.

To me it's also talking about how it's okay to have your own identity in the face of all this pressure to have some other identity.

Whatever shortcomings they might develop under pressure (Grant's, for instance, was said to be whiskey; hearing which, the President was supposed to have asked what brand he drank, intending to send a barrel each to all his other generals)

What is important, perhaps, is that the moment was a culmination of all we had ever dreamt: not just Grey Goose, not just the good life—the tuneful life without the pressure of time—but also the green tree of the pagan love flourishing within the Shining Barrier.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"