Quotes About Pressure

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

No one has a sorrier lot than the weatherman. He is ignored when he is right, but execrated when he is wrong.

If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

Guilt is a blanket of stones.

Let me tell you what really happened, the voice said. All those years you waited torpidly, like a sleepwalker, pulled and pushed about by others' opinions, by external pressure, by your illusions, by the official rules you internalized. You were misled by your own frustration and passivity, believing that what you were not allowed to have was what your heart was destined to embrace.

I find the business world hard.

It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.

So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.

After I hit the home run, I went back to left field, and I was standing in my position to catch a fly ball, and Donald Davis, my traveling secretary, was running down the left field line. He was telling me the President was on the telephone. And I said, "Well fine, Donald, but what do you want me to do? Stop the ball game?" I said, "Just put the President on hold, and I'll be right with him."

I don't know, those ice-cream balls could be a little tighter," he says, a serious look on his face like he actually means it. Noel's chuckling, which is a relief because it means it looks okay to him, but I'm ready to lose it. I can't believe I'm letting this coke-snorting new guy get the best of me. "Yeah," I say, "like marbles. We could name the dish after you.

Cele mai multe dintre tensiunile si frustrarile noastre provin din nevoia compulsiva de a juca rolul unei persoane care nu suntem noi.

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

The solution presented itself in a flash of inspiration. He would sacrifice Ethel. The internal pressure generated by her murder would be so intense that he "would be liberated from all the bonds of mortality and would arrive at the stage of Redeemer."15

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.

I did my MA on Elizabethan women who demanded to choose their husbands. It really annoys me, that it's basically the same thing today. Who are we going to end up with? [...] It's a race,and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on

London eats up pretty girls, you know...

Nothing, but nothing, will block the awareness of anger so effectively as guilt and self-doubt. Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.

Love is too valuable to allow it to be killed by marriage, social pressures, or any other restriction.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.

It's funny, isn't it. You plan for years, play 9 tough games, and then your hopes of a World Cup win and the resultant career-high rest on an hour and a half of T20 equivalent cricket.