Quotes About Pressure

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so

The true character of a person is revealed under pressure.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

These happen more when he is stressed … as the old commercial says, he shouldn't let them see him sweat so much.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

Reason finally holds a gun at its head - and does not always miss.

Sometimes God's Good Women have to be forcefully persuasive, just as Jesus was, despite cultural pressures to be quiet and timid.

This is what many women are socialized to do in church: please people, not God. They come to church experiencing ongoing pressure from the world to be plastic Nice Girls, and the church, instead of freeing women to emulate the 360-degree Jesus, influences them to become even more of a smiley-face doormat, by teaching them that this is what God expects from women: quiet, sweet, unrelenting compliance.

1) Having an incomplete image of Jesus that focuses on his sweet side and ignores his forceful side; (2) Giving in to the immense pressure society puts on women to hide their true selves behind a façade of niceness; (3) Encountering harmful childhood experiences, such as lacking inspiring words or role models

wonder if anyone in the world works harder at anything than American school kids work at popularity. Navy SEALS and neurosurgery residents seem slackers by comparison.

Companies often wonder what to outsource and what not to. One possible answer: outsource any job that's not directly exposed to competitive pressure, because outsourcing it will thereby expose it to competitive pressure. (I mean "outsource" in the sense of hiring another company to do it, not the more specific sense of hiring an overseas company.)

The stated purpose of schools is to educate the kids. But there is no external pressure to do this well.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Buy it for the lady who's about to become your mother-in-law, the one who's already trying to control your life and the lives of the three children she's already pressuring you to have. Give her the book one day out of nowhere, just as a nice surprise, and when she hugs you, calmly whisper: "Don't fuck with me, Ellen. Don't even think about it. Ever." Then smile at her like everything is wonderful. Because from now on, it will be.

I had, under pressure, handed over bribes many times before.

The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient, and we weren't under any pressure to join.

Being a man is bad enough; being manly is appalling.

We aren't who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don't want to disappoint anyone; we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.