Quotes About Pressure

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Courage is grace under pressure.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.

Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Estas siempre enfadada con tu mama?" "La odio." "Por qué, Linda?" "Ella me odia a mí." "Her pressure's 120 over 100," said Sabbath.

Una universidad era una universidad: que fueras a una cualquiera y acabaras licenciándote era lo único que le importaba a una familia tan poco mundana como la mía.

The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

Still, she felt absolutely sick inside, and as soon as she walked into her classroom, she knew that everyone was looking at her, even the teacher, as though at any moment she might stand up and do something crazy. Wally, in fact, kept leaning forward in his seat as if she might go berserk and take a bite out of his shoulder or something.

The Black Plague!" Niobe exclaimed. "What good did that do?" "It alleviated the European population pressure, decimated the labor force, and-so paved the way for the end of the feudal system," Satan said. "You can't keep workers in peonage when there are so few that their value is great.