Quotes About Pressure

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

As product schedules get tighter and the level of difficulty rises, the first casualty is innovation,

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

Alfred's sister, Olive Deering, was famous in those years for her sentiments during her filming of the endless DeMille epic The Ten Commandments: "Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?")

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

When trying to get people to change familiar ways of doing things, social pressures and constraints exerted by the informal peer group represent the most potent restraining force that must be overcome and, at the same time, the most powerful inducing force that can be exploited to achieve success.

I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing

You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket

I served everyone automatically, keeping a big smile on my face, but inside I felt like a jar lid that's been twisted on too tight.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure

The trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

Dear Mr. Snicket, I would like to be a writer when I grow up, but my dad wants me to be a dentist. Help! - Troubled In Tacoma Dear Ms. Troubled, Take extensive notes on your father's behavior. A man who pressured other people into dentistry will be a wonderful character for your first book. With all due respect, LS

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were contractual dreams or the public's dreams, or fulfilling my own dreams and illusions about what I thought I was supposed to be, which, in retrospect, turned out to not be what I am.