Quotes About Pressure

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

The typical procrastinator completes most assignments on time, but the pressure of doing work at the last minute causes unnecessary anxiety and diminishes the quality of the end result.

Prison was a kind of crucible which tested a man's character. Some men, under pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Men and women in the United States carried a terrific burden

In the lowlands around Lake Superior weather fronts, with their attendant changes in pressure, gave her headaches. Not so the mountain storms. Cracking thunder and flashing lightning filled the air with ozone till it tingled in the lungs, rejuvenating body and spirit much the same as the air at the seaside or near waterfalls.

Since joining the National Park Service fourteen years ago, Anna had worked every Fourth of July. ... Winding her way through the masses, trying not to get her fragile frame jostled, she realized she preferred it that way. Working on holidays, one wasn't required to have fun. There was no pressure, no disappointments. And she usually had a wonderful time.

The basis of the Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. Ruth Swain in "History of the Rain

The fact is, I did not appreciate until much later in my own life what subterfuge and sacrifice it took to be independent and undefeated by the pressures of reality.

It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking - lit - seven flames of doubt, fear, sorrow, pain, waste, hopelessness, despair. They turn my insides black with soot and ash. There is something at the back of my eyes - a pressure building, building, building - hot like the flames of seven candles, which no amount of breath can extinguish.

Sometimes it seemed that half the people around her were in states of collapse.

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

It's madness really that society expects a newly bereaved person to jump through so many hoops.

Because what is fate, but that moment when you're playing the computer on the hardest difficulty setting, you've run out of life force and you make that one mistake. It's those excruciating moments that pass by like an eternity before that final hit comes. You know you've fucked up, and there's no way of going back. You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

That's other guys. I'm more of the beaten NCO who sighs and looks off toward wherever as you tell him the next problem he's got to jump all over before everything catches fire and we explode in every direction.

Fuck man, it's not success that's hard to deal with, it's … uh, the other thing.

As a result, Brian's competitive side took a particularly vicious hammering and the whole experience seemed to have left him more paranoid than ever before.

Show me a motherfucker who's relaxed and I'll show you a motherfucker that's afraid of success.

Years before MTV, the system was for a band to appear on one of the celebrity shows then current. The presenter, usually a popular singer of a certain age anxious to extend his career, would sing a couple of numbers, and then bring guests on to chat, with musical interludes from the likes of us. With Syd approaching a catatonic state, you might think this was not a recipe for success, and you'd be right.

We thought we could augment the band with an extra guitarist to take the pressure off Syd. Jeff Beck's name was mentioned, which would have been an interesting (and spectacular) experiment. I don't think any of us would have had the courage to make the phone call at the time. Roger eventually managed it twenty-five years later.

Nathan's thoughts were a giant, angry sea tap-tap-tapping on a small dyke wall.

Self-consciousness, the curse of Western womanhood.

His forehead glistened. He knew me, what I might do if he pushed too hard. Something was so important to him that he thought it was worth the risk; I would have to hurt him or listen.