Quotes About Pressure

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

Parkinson's Law: If you have only one letter to write, it will take all day to do it. If you have twenty letters to write, you'll get them done in one day.

Few things push a person like a deadline and an audience. That didn't mean that I always reached my goals. But I found that if I told others about what I intended to do, I worked harder, and I worked in such a way that I wouldn't be ashamed of my efforts even if everyone was watching them.

Francis asks Julia if the children couldn't have their dinner earlier. Julia's guns are loaded for this. She can't cook two dinners and lay two tables. She paints with lightning strokes that panorama of drudgery in which her youth, her beauty, and her wit have been lost. Francis says that he must be understood; he was nearly killed in an airplane crash, and he doesn't like to come home every night to a battlefield. Now Julia is deeply concerned.

It's hard growing up in a world where you never feel like you're good enough.

Tries really hard to live up to everyone's expectations, but there comes a point when I just don't give a sh.. anymore.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Enjoy your birthday cake today since tomorrow we'll return to judging you based on every single morsel you ingest.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

All stressed out and no one to choke.

That 'Aww crap!' moment when your mom is almost home and you look around and haven't done anything she told you to do.

Being a girl sucks because it makes me indecisive and self-conscious.

Why do teachers think it's okay to plan for loads of homework and projects the last few days of school? Give me a break.

M.A.T.H = Mental Abuse to Humans.

Dear God, I'm blessed and at times I end up under pressure to where I become a little stressed, but I always seem to pass your tests. I just wanted to take a moment to not ask for anything from you, but to simply say two words: Thank You.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

We would like to think of death as a release from the pressures of existence, but this is a fatally mistaken thought: it is the ultimate culmination of those pressures.

I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

If you're going to let pressure stop you from fulfilling your dreams, you're robbing yourself.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.