Quotes About Pressure

Perfectionism robs you of your freedom.

You actually can be too rich or too thin

Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing

Did not go well at mall. Passerby said, "how's the screenplay goin', Steve?" Worried about tomorrow's performance on CSI… and Emmy.

So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who look over their shoulders. There is a lot of peer pressure within churches and Christian movements to dot all the i's and cross all the t's of a precise and perfect faith.

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BOYLE'S LAW (1662)

Reality is a powerful selection pressure. A hominid that soothed itself by believing that a lion was a turtle or that eating sand would nourish its body would be outreproduced by its reality-based rivals.

The likelihood that, in attacking a member of your own species, you will get hurt is a powerful selection pressure that disfavors indiscriminate pouncing or lashing out.

In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it's a big responsibility, and sometimes it's a lot of pressure on me.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

I hate show business.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear. "Maybe he's got one... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage.

I'd gone my whole life with people expecting things I didn't seem capable of giving, so why should now be any different?

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The mass is all which sets no value on itself??good or ill??based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The mass crushes beneath it everything which is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Telephones, automobiles, and economic pressure all combine to create physical letdown and mental stress so great that today practically no home is entirely free from sufferers of some form of nervous tension.