Quotes About Pressure

What's her problem?" Tara asks from behind me. "High expectations," I say. "Misplaced high expectations.

It was a weird feeling knowing that people were looking to me for help – and frustrating too. You save the damn city a couple times, and suddenly everyone expects miracles from you.

What's pretty important, and least was for me, (related an exceptionally good pinch-hitter on the pressures involved with failing with so much at stake) you can't be afraid to enjoy the moment.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

The end product of the shorter deadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greater focus.

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know? I've been there and

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore. —OPRAH WINFREY, actress and talk-show host, The Oprah Winfrey Show

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.

What if [you] just can't come up with 10 ideas? Here's the magic trick: If you can't come up with 10 ideas, come up with 20 ideas. . . . You are putting too much pressure on yourself. Perfectionism is the ENEMY of the idea muscle . . .

If you can't come up with 10 ideas, come up with 20 ideas. . . . You are putting too much pressure on yourself. Perfectionism is the ENEMY of the idea muscle . . . it's your brain trying to protect you from harm, from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain. The way you shut [this] off is by forcing [the brain] to come up with bad ideas.

There is always constant pressure to conform. But originality only happens on the edges of reality.

Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it's a road to misery. If art is your sole source of income, then there's unrelenting pressure on that art, and mercenary pressure is the enemy of the creative elves inside you trying to get the work done.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore. —OPRAH WINFREY,

Stressed' is the achiever word for 'fear.

The key in a restaurant, and the key in any kind of high-pressure situation, I think, is that 75% of success is staying calm and not losing your nerve. The rest you figure out, but once you lose your calm, everything else starts falling apart fast.

If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?" For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to: "What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

He took his aim. His arm wavered. His eyes burned with sweat. Why didn't someone come and jump on his back and make him stop? He fired. A chair fell over in his mind.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

There are limits, you know. A person can only be pressed so far until they crumble.

Deadlines are like a drug for me. I hate and need them.