Quotes About Pressure

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

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.

Yet the logic of academic grants and promotions tells you to publish at once, and for goodness' sake don't prod it too hard.

All around me the options seemed to be narrowing, as if I were hurtling down a huge black funnel, the whole world squeezing in tight.

They carried their own lives. The pressures were enormous.

His brain had the bends.

Scripture makes it clear that these responses are not forced upon us by the pressures of the situation. What I do comes from inside me. The things that happen to me will influence my responses but never determine them. Rather, these responses flow out of the thoughts and motives of my heart.

If you penetrate the hull at deep depth, the sudden pressure change inside the hull supposedly causes the air to ignite and everyone inside the boat incinerates.

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ

You hear rushing air. If you penetrate the hull at deep depth, the sudden pressure change inside the hull supposedly causes the air to ignite and everyone inside the boat incinerates. I

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed.

This is possibly what drove Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain to early graves. They could not handle being cogs. They could not handle monetizing their content. That was not the reason they become bohemian singers.

No matter what she was doing-baking cookies, walking around the lake on a beautiful day, making love to her husband-she felt rushed and jittery, as if the last few grains of sand were at that very moment sliding through the narrow waist of an hourglass. Any unforeseen occurrence-road construction, an inexperienced cashier, a missing set of keys-could plunge her into a mood of frantic despair that could poison an entire day.

If there was one thing that rankled about being a woman, it was this conviction, drummed into your head before you had a chance to defend yourself, that it was your job - your obligation- to always look your best, even in situations when you had no logical reason to care.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

We become ads for ourselves under the pressure of the spectacle that flattens our experience of the public/private dichotomy.

Donne in eccedenza, così venivano chiamate quelle rimaste nubili a causa della guerra e che difficilmente si sarebbero sposate, una minaccia, anzi una vera tragedia, per una società basata sul matrimonio. Violet aveva pensato che col tempo ci avrebbe fatto l'abitudine, invece a trentotto anni suonati le bruciava ancora l'idea di essere una donna in eccedenza.

Ma è questo che ci si aspetta da noi donne, no? Dobbiamo dare, dare, e aiutare gli altri, qualunque sia il nostro stato d'animo. È stancante e ingrato, a volte".

He was a man, and it was expected of him to achieve.

Your dream of being discovered by the public will become the burden of being defined.

The greater your success, the greater the forces that will try to confine you.