Quotes About Pressure

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

While at the wheel, you are simultaneously dealing with issues in time, space, physics, and potentially, life and death – and all the while, you're wondering who's bringing the guacamole.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.

Some grown-ups could be so inherently stupid. Try banning homework sometime. You might see those straight A's so many parents long for.

If I went home, I was a loser. If I went inside, I was a criminal. So basically, I had no choice. The inside of the building smelled musty,

Other people will always appear to move with dedication and consequence. How else does a person behave when people are watching?

Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma," writes Alain de Botton in his book Status Anxiety, efficiently summing up Draper, Grey, and Trump in one blow. "It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

Our culture exerts a constant pressure on us that severs our relationship to ourselves and each other.

Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam, designed to make people currently in a relationship spend unnecessary money in a fruitless attempt to ensure undying love and devotion. For those of us not in a relationship, Valentine's Day is simply added pressure to identify ourselves within the context of a romantic relationship, whipping us into a frenzy that only the presence of our soul mates can relieve.

Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you turned twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor, or cuts you any slack, is during that very brief period of courtship where the world is trying to fuck you for the first time.

Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests

It's irritating when people tell you that you're such good parents you're failing your kid.

What Martha Stewart-like demon of a Stepford wife is possessing me?

It's bad enough to be a baby-making machine with no epidural in sight in exchange for the state-sanctioned title of 'Mrs' before one's name. But to be a 'Miss' with an ever-increasing brood of children, just waiting for the man to grow weary of stretch marks and spit-ups? No thank you?

I've begun to have those stupid dreams. You know the ones where you show up for the final exam and haven't cracked a book all semester?

Who forces himself on others, is to himself a load.

Being a woman seemed to mean listening to the music boys liked and neither dancing nor singing along.

So the realm of strategy is one of bargaining and persuasion as well as threats and pressure, psychological as well as physical effects, and words as well as deeds. This is why strategy is the central political art. It is about getting more out of a situation than the starting balance of power would suggest. It is the art of creating power.

Con el telón de fondo de las intensas presiones competitivas, el papel del directivo empezaba a verse cada vez más comprometido. Los sueldos que podían cobrar en las grandes compañías eran notables, pero también los riesgos de ser despedidos. Sus actuaciones se juzgaban de acuerdo con modelos cada vez más exigentes, pero desde luego el objetivo más importante era conseguir beneficios a corto plazo que atrajeran a nuevos inversores.

Así pues, el territorio de la estrategia es la negociación y la persuasión, al igual que las amenazas y la presión, se recurre tanto a los efectos psicológicos como a los físicos, y a las palabras como a los hechos. Esta es la razón por la que la estrategia es el arte esencial de la política. Y se trata de conseguir de una situación concreta más de lo que el equilibrio inicial de fuerzas podría sugerir. Es el arte de crear poder.

The problem with success, even a little success, is that it changes you. You are no longer walking along the same precipice that drove you to do great work in the first place. Now you have something to defend: a reputation, money in the bank, a brand, real customer expectations. Success can take the edge away.