Quotes About Pressure

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

Mammi Fisher fears you will become en alt

Unstructured time, a heavy responsibility for self-direction, and high demands for excellence seem to be the common elements in these situations that are easy triggers for addictive behaviors. Procrastination

What would you do if you had a six-month sabbatical from any type of work? When are you at your happiest? If someone were to introduce you at a party, how would you like to be introduced? In other words, you are "the _____ guy or girl." Fill in the blank. What have you done purely because of other people's pressure? What have you done because of some external pressure? What motivates you, and why?

You're a good boy. I wish you didn't have to be quite so good

But that's the risk, isn't it? Being the best gives you nowhere to go but down. It also makes you a target, for if someone else wants to be the best, they have to beat you, don't they?

Jared exhales a long, long time. "Dude." I just swallow. It's loud in the silence. "I think it's starting again." "It's probably just the pressure of everything," Jared offers. "Finals, your massively unrequited love for Henna–" "Don't say unrequited." ". . . your massively invisible love for Henna . . ." I hit him on the arm. It's friendly. More silence.

The nightmare feeling was rising in him, turning everything seem heavy and impossible, like he'd been asked to lift a mountain with his bare hands and no one would let him leave until he did.

You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop.

Being the best gives you nowhere to go but down. It also makes you a target, for if someone else wants to be the best, they have to beat you, don't they?

Barbara Moulton who had spent five years as a drug examiner at the FDA before resigning in protest. The agency had "failed utterly" in its task of policing the way prescription drugs were marketed and sold, she testified. Moulton described an environment at the FDA of unrelenting pressure from the drug companies and a culture in which regulators, rather than regulate the drug companies and their products, showed slavish deference to the private sector.

a posture of heavy-lies-the-crown fatigue.

According to the former executive, Purdue eventually went over the agency's head, appealing to the political leadership in the Reagan administration. "They were putting pressure on the White House," the executive said. This strategy succeeded.

One unionist politician likened this custody arrangement to keeping 'a python in a paper bag'.

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I've been set afire.

Eres tan amable. Nunca me precionas...-Volvió a interrumpirse y se dejo caer un poco mas sobre mi pecho. Entonces se animó-. Podrías presionarme, ¿No? Un poco.

Tests were fine and good. Tests were important. Tests were like rehearsal. But all that really matters is what happens when the audience is watching. This is a truth all troupers know. Kilvin

After a few moments my back began to ache with the pressure of supporting her weight and my own. My leg started to go numb. Her hair tickled my nose. Still, I didn't move for fear of ruining this, the most wonderful moment of my life.

Tests were fine and good. Tests were important. Tests were like rehearsal. But all that really matters is what happens when the audience is watching. This is a truth all troupers know.

Así de pesado puede volverse un secreto. Puede hacer que la sangre fluya más fácilmente que la tinta.

Había días que te aplastaban como una losa.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

The extended silence went on too long. I knew it had to be broken, smashed into little bits and thrown out the nearest airlock.