Quotes About Pressure

Sugar, nobody's perfect. And when ladies try to be perfect, their periods stop.

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.

If he had been a monster, I wouldn't have been interested in writing about him. The sorts of crimes that interest me are not the ones committed by psychopaths. I'm interested in apparently ordinary people who, under life's unbearable pressure, burst through the very fine membrane that separates our daylight selves from the secret darkness that lives in every one of us.

As a result, there occurred periodic pardons (indultos) for civil war-related offences (though never for anything defined as post-war "crimes against the security of the state"). Tens of thousands of people were released by the mid 1940s. These pardons were necessary or the gaols would have caved in under the pressure

I want to warn twentysomething women that the old bargain has not changed all that much. You can only have it all if you do it all.

He is only a man. Success is a pressure. He cannot quite bear it. It boils and bubbles. And without knowing it, quietly and cruelly, he begins to sabotage his success, because success cannot be borne. It is so very easily done.

She was only fifteen. At that age embarassment is something you can actually die of.

her body held in frightened rigidity because if she dared stop clapping then a bad thing would come.

I was always weak in the head—that must be it. I can't seem to care anymore about what I'm supposed to do.

relying on industrial quantities of caffeine to get through the day and self-medicating with Sauvignon Blanc to get myself to sleep. Sunday

There's no pressure. It is going to be fun, a great game, and I look forward to meeting the challenge.

THINK OF PRESSURE MOMENTS AS A CHALLENGE OR OPPORTUNITY/FUN

The goal: for Ax to become familiar with feeling pressure so that he could learn to ignore it and do his job, no matter how stressful it got.

The logic of this pressure solution is the opposite. Since high-pressure situations are inevitable, you might as well get used to the feelings of pressure, so that you are able to perform at a high level in spite of pressure.

If you're preparing for a presentation, challenge yourself to make your points coherently in a shorter-than-expected time frame. Add more pressure to your practice by handicapping yourself—no notes and a blaring television.

SHRINK THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESSURE MOMENT

you've heard that some people at work do more creative work, are more productive, work better as a team, or add more value to a client under pressure. But it's not true. Moreover

teams facing significant performance pressure tend to default to high-status members at the expense of the most knowledgeable of the team members.

To counter and prevent primal pressure thinking, you need to underexaggerate or generate thoughts that minimize the significance of the pressure moment.

Your natural tools are your thoughts, physiological responses, body movements, voice, and senses. They determine how you handle pressure, regardless of your level of expertise, abilities, or good intentions. People

you can lose a competition and not choke, just like you can give a great presentation and not get the job. Choking has more to do with the effects of pressure on performance than on the outcome.

when teams face significant performance pressure, they tend to defer to high-status members, at the expense of using expert team members.

as the military has discovered, if the amount of stress is great enough, anyone can be broken down by it.

In just a few decades, dramatic changes have occurred in our relationship to stress. There are many illnesses that are now associated with stress—and they have become epidemic in scope.