Quotes About Pressure

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically: His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong. Her editor would cut that line.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

i love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of nine but my sister told me the bit u should never do. all in all, i loved this book and any jacqueline wilson fans over 10 i would recommend it to!

The human being is changing slowly under the pressure of the economic milieu; he is in process of becoming the uncomplicated being the liberal economist constructed.

Thus violence can never be justified or acceptable before God. The Christian can only admit humbly that he could no do otherwise, that he took the easy way and yielded to necessity and the pressures of the world. That is why the Christian, even when he permits himself to use violence in what he considers the best of causes, cannot either feel or say that he is justified; he can only confess that he is a sinner, submit to God's judgment, and hope for God's grace and forgiveness.

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

The moment a team member relaxes is the moment their opponent in the next garage or the next driver on the track is pushing harder.

She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandled the pressure.

Maybe it's because spiritual growth and vibrant faith in God don't happen in isolation, but under pressure.

Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity. My personal list of must-read books presents a daunting challenge; I can't even imagine the pressure our head librarian must be under.

GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.

Then I came face to face with the realization that disappointing people is the greatest fear of the nice girl.

For [people] who have never experienced sudden, total defeat and the almost overnight disappearance of their political elites; who have never lived under foreign occupation; who do not know what Nazi pressure meant; who have never had to worry first and last about food and physical survival…the warning must be heeded: do not judge too harshly.

But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her performance fell short of perfection. They were less a mortification, she feared, than an actual statement of fact: B+ is all you deserve.

The biblical way to be preserved is to be pressed. And being pressed can certainly feel like being crushed.

Unrealistic demands lead to undercurrents of failure.

She never wants to do most of the things she forces herself to do by deciding them when she's upset. It's just that she feels trapped into following through on her promises. Even the stupid ones.

it's like having you around draws her out of herself. She's more of everything on the outside, and less of it on the inside, where she can bottle it up." Which was the finest description of a common cause of physical ailment-inducing stress

Never rely on a husband for your happiness. The government persecute men, then men persecute their wives in return. And what do the wives do? If they have a child, they slap it to let off steam. If not, they drown themselves or swallow bottles of pesticide.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10 000 people.

It is when a parent's love is experienced as conditional on achievement that children are at risk for serious emotional problems.