Quotes About Pressure

Football games aren't won, they're lost.

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

To soften the ire of the pressure groups that were hammering He-Man, Filmation enlisted consultants to ensure that our female lead was appropriately maternal, nurturing and non threatening to male authority figures.They also decided that while the male characters on the show could use swords or arrows or punch the bad guys, our female lead was not free to do the same.

Never enough time. It's never enough time. Was there enough time?

I have to move fast, if I hesitate even a second longer, I'll lose focus and be trapped forever in this... this... toilet!

For a brief moment, he remembered when he had been the most cool-headed in the Brotherhood, the icy intellectual, the laser-sighted truth layer. Lately, the stressors had been coming on him so hard and fast. He had turned into a flaming hot Cheetos!

I'm not putting up with this, she continued. You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done? Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and for her, she realized. He could open little pockets of peace.

It's lunacy out there. Christmas makes people insane. And that bit about goodwill toward men? It sure as hell doesn't apply to retail.

That works for now. Eve's stomach began to clench and jitter. There were tears swimming in her aide's eyes. Peabody's lips were quivering. What are you doing? she demanded. Nothing. Sir. How come you're going to cry? You know how I feel about crying on the job. I'm not crying. And it appalled her that she was on the edge of it. I just don't feel very well, that's all. I wonder, sir, if I could be excused from the briefing at sixteen hundred.

Overworked, as usual. It happens to those who are particularly good at their jobs." She handed Eve a cup of tea in one of the pretty china cups.

The fear of the Time Out, Dallas. It can't be overstated.

The guy was cracking down on the Brotherhood, organizing shifts, trying to turn four loose cannons like V, Phury, Rhage, and Z into soldiers. No wonder he always looked like his head hurt.

See, this is how people get paralyzed. They stuff and stuff and stuff, and the triggers keep coming and the layers continue to build until the load becomes too heavy, and they fold.

Evolution has one big rule: If there's no pressure on the system to change, then it doesn't bother.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

I don't know, I'm going as fast as I can and I don't think I have the time.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

Going on tour for 10 years straight and playing 200-plus shows a year, you can't ever come back from that mentally. You're twisted in a weird way where you need that in order to be a person still.