Quotes About Pressure

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

Because when you don't perform remarkably well the next time, back to slobhood you will go! And even when you do perform well, you will be anxious about not doing so next time. So you had better like your fine performance—but not deify yourself for doing it.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

Me carga que la gente espere cosas de mí. Me enreda, me complica, me obliga a responder.

What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?

Internal documents from the European Medicines Agency, which regulates drugs and vaccines across Europe, show the pressure that the EMA and FDA faced to approve the vaccines quickly.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare?   For this your locks in paper durance bound,   For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100   For this with fillets strain'd your tender head,   And bravely bore the double loads of lead?

Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one. It's the pressure and the panic to tick all the boxes and reach all the goals . . . and what happens when you don't. When you find yourself on the outside. Because on some level, in some aspect of your life, it's so easy to feel like you're failing when everyone around you appears to be succeeding.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one.

I can't help feeling as if there's something missing in my life. But I don't know what it is. And the harder I look, the more I can't find it because there's just too much pressure and not enough time.

Many mothers and father return each evening from their paid jobs only to serve as homework monitors, a position for which they never applied.

four accounts of how praise may impede performance: it signals low ability, makes people feel pressured, invites a low-risk strategy to avoid failure, and reduces interest in the task itself.

Parents become more controlling when time is short, just as they do when they're in public. The combination of the two conditions is a killer.

In extreme cases, the "press for success" can reach a fever pitch, such that the child's present is essentially mortgaged to the future. Activities that might bring meaning or enjoyment are sacrificed in a ceaseless effort to prepare for Harvard.

As a rule, the point of homework generally isn't to learn, much less to derive real pleasure from learning. It's something to be finished. And until it is, it looms large in conversations, an unwelcome guest at the table every night.

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

Storms often come with high stakes, so mishandling a crisis situation can have lifelong repercussions.