Quotes About Pressure

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

Impatience is a form of fear: fear of running out of time.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

When you have a Job, it means someone has placed a limitation of TIME on you. Meaning every aspect of your life is controlled. It becomes stressing when you are at the bottom of the Career Ladder.

If your brain is working, you always have no time.

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.

Three hundred feet down, seawater slams through a two-inch hole with enough force to bend a knee the way knees don't bend.

Making matters riskier: bed pans! "The notorious frequency of sudden and unexpected deaths of patients while using bed pans in hospitals has been commented upon for many years," wrote the Cincinnati doctors. Notorious enough for a term to be coined: "bed pan death." Lying flat is as counterproductive a posture as squatting is productive. Squatting passively increases the pressure on the rectum. It does the pushing for you. It