Quotes About Pressure

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

you're too pretty for your own good, maybe. It could get you an early start on a miserable life.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

The pure products of America go crazy... ...[] No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car

Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs...

She [Cayce Pollard] feels the things she herself owns as a sort of pressure. Other people's objects exert no pressure. Margot thinks that Cayce has weaned herself from materialism, is preternaturally adult, requiring no external tokens of self.

Those fuckers," Janice said, meaning the football players, "they get me doing hate Kegels.

She feels the things she herself owns as a sort of pressure. Other people's objects exert no pressure. Margot thinks that Cayce has weaned herself from materialism, is preternaturally adult, requiring no external tokens of self.

Shit," she said, small hand gesturing to encompass their situation. "Lots of it. Now. Hitting many fans. Large ones.

it seemed that it was changing subtly, cooking itself down under the pressure of time, silent invisible flakes settling to form a mulch, a crystalline essence of discarded technology, flowering secretly in the Sprawl's waste places.

Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person.

Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease

our moral and practical attitude....impulses, inhibitions.... how it contains and moulds us by its restrictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent with the cavity of a jar.... It becomes our subconscious. [p. 287]

Soon they'll be saying you're a girl ate what was given her .

Why did everyone become so obsessed with being 'perky', upbeat, and happy all the time? In our happiness-obsessive culture, even a lack of smile might cause people to think there is something wrong with you. What's worse is when we buy into it ourselves.

The problem is that urgencies—the most vivid and immediate circumstances—will always hog our spotlight.