Quotes About Pressure

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.

Everyone helping out was supposed to make me feel better, but it actually made me feel more like a screw up.

Going to work every day was like my hair was on fire and all I had to put it out was a hammer.

Dating--the socially accepted alternative to the rack.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

... had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.

...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Pressure makes diamonds

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.