Quotes About Pressure

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

Traditional socialization teaches young boys to filter their sense of self-worth through performance.

making a child into the family hero—the light all others depend upon—is a form of trauma.

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

I try to avoid stress — it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent!"

As John arranged to bring Steve home, the media pressure steadily increased. I told Wes I wanted to go meet the plane, but that I wouldn't take the kids. This was my time to be with my soul mate, and I needed to do it on my own.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Henry Kissinger once wrote that "the public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance,

The world is too big for us. Too much is going on. Too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race in spite of yourself. It is an incessant strain to keep pace, and still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderness. . . . Everything is high-pressure. Human nature can't endure much more." —Atlantic Journal Editorial, June 16, 1833 The

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

surroundings, and the venture was not a great success. One flop followed another. Not even the presence of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at a command performance of The Crossways on 8 December 1902 could save the situation.

Although princes need not necessarily be intelligent, it is essential that they have some sort of public presence. The Duke of York had none. Fine-boned and slightly built, he looked frail, seemed lacking in physical stamina. His air was tense, hesitant, ill-at-ease. An observer had only to notice the incessant working of his jaw muscles to appreciate that he was under severe strain.

Although, by the time of his second daughter's birth, the Duke had overcome the worst of his stammer, it tended to re-emerge under pressure; his public delivery remained slow and monotonous. All in all, he looked very largely what he was – a well-meaning man, but ill educated, self-doubting, unresolved.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

All these nervous people, from the unemployed to the public figure liable at any moment to incur the wrath of those whose investment he represents, believe that only by empathy, assiduity, serviceability, arts and dodges, by tradesmen's qualities, can they ingratiate themselves with the executive they imagine omnipresent, and soon there is no relationship that is not seen as a 'connection', no impulse not first censored as to whether it deviates from the acceptable.

This is the lie that is at the heart of our society, the lie that encourages every form of destructive self-indulgence to flourish: for while we ascribe our conduct to pressures from without, we obey the whims that well up from within, thereby awarding ourselves carte blanche to behave as we choose. Thus we feel good about behaving badly.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

I did not then believe, and I do not now believe, that any man should ever attempt to make politics his only career. It is a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service to the people while in office, and always puts him under the heaviest strain of pressure to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.

Din eskiden ÅŸiirseldi. Ancak bask?lar alt?nda nesre dönüÅŸtü. Bilimle ayn? boks ringine girdiÄŸini düÅŸündü ve tan?nmaz hale geldi.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.