Quotes About Pressure

Nobody understands how hard it is, being captain.

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.

Appropriately used, checklists can be a tremendous asset in enhancing personal productivity and relieving mental pressure.

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest.

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest. On

What's the first level of focus when the stuff hits the fan? Action! Work harder! Overtime! More people! Get busier! And a lot of stressed-out people are thrown at the situation.

The humidity pressed in from all sides like solid walls of water.

There's one key difference between the Olympics and combat, Susan. You might have overlooked it." He paused. "In the Olympics, no one is shooting back at you.

Only when government begins to hand out rewards on the basis of political pressure do we find ourselves involved in group conflict, pushed to organize and contend with other groups for a piece of political power.

While at General Electric, I'd noticed firsthand what a big difference it made to be in a good industry. When I ran General Electric's major appliance business, we had a great position but were in a crummy, highly competitive, low-growth industry. No matter how hard we worked, we stood little chance of excelling—the pressure on prices was just too intense. It was far easier, I found, to make progress with a business that occupied a bad position in a good industry.

Self-Directed Shouldslead to feelings of guilt and inferiority when we don't live up to our self-imposed standards ("I shouldn't have screwed up!").

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous. Who made up that rule? It's a known fact...

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

Charles Tavis knows what James Incandenza could not have cared about less: the key to the successful administration of a top-level junior tennis academy lies in cultivating a kind of reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry.

If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one. It is easier than you think.

The modern woman's a mess of contradictions that they lay on themselves that drives them nuts.

Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set up internal stress about the prospect of internal stress.

It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.

talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.

If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.

it's plausibly a case of any kind of system that's been under enormous silent pressure for some time, that when the system finally blows the accreted pressure's such that it's almost always a full-scale eruption.