Quotes About Pressure

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.

I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pulls us in different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until the strain becomes too great, and we break.

It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now.

my dear, it never rains, but it pours

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

Patrick Bateman: I'm on a diet. Jean: What, you're kidding, right? You look great... so fit... and thin. Patrick Bateman: Well, you can always be thinner... look better. Jean: Then maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I wouldn't want you to lose your willpower. Patrick Bateman: That's okay. I'm not very good at controlling it anyway. Share this quote

Patrick," she says slowly. "If you're so uptight about work, why don't you just quit? You don't have to work." "Because," I say, staring directly at her, "I … want … to … fit … in.

The next morning over a breakfast of bran muffins and kiwi and Evian water and wheatgrass juice, Ann mentioned something about buying a BMW and I had to hold back a scream. It was clear that this had not been my best term; it was clear that I was losing it

and writhe in tension, pulling you in two directions, leaving you in di-stress.

The genius of inflation's pioneers was to provide an answer. They showed that the negative pressure required for an antigravity burst naturally emerges from a novel mechanism involving ingredients known as quantum fields.

If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couples first child is born. No matter how hard they try, no matter how pure their intentions... everything will go wrong.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

To counter this technique, when someone says that you must make a decision immediately or you will lose special terms or conditions, you reply by saying: "If I have to make a decision immediately, the answer is no. But if I have an opportunity to consider your offer carefully, the answer may be different.

13. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left.

Under the pressure of deadlines, often self-created through procrastination, people suffer greater stress, make more mistakes, and have to redo more tasks than under any other conditions.

Hay una gran diferencia entre la acción autodeterminada y dirigida a objetivos y la reacción, que es una respuesta inmediata a una presión externa.

It is only when you are under pressure- when you are forced to choose one way or another, to either live consistently with a value or to compromise it- that you demonstrate your true character...Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities.

It's dangerous because my thoughts get away from themselves. Mixed with emotion, they pile up like the garbage that surrounds me. They stack layer upon layer, deeper and deeper, month after month- crushing, festering, smoldering. One day something is certain to combust.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant. Bradlee asked for a corner table, and began the conversation. 'You'd better bring me up to date because...' He turned to order lunch in perfect French, and then turned back to Woodward. '...our cocks are on the chopping block now and I just want to know a little bit more about this.