PRESSURE QUOTES II
quotations about pressure
Most of us think of pressure as situation-specific: the bottom of the ninth, taking the SATs, or giving a presentation in front of management. Yet the reality is that pressure is a daily force that infiltrates our everyday activities and builds up to the moment when everything is on the line.
HENDRIE WEISINGER & J. P. PAWLIW-FRY
Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
Pressure can be felt like a hangman's noose.
BILLIE STRONG, JR.
"Pressure", A Book of Poems
Five grand a week? That's my kind of pressure.
LOU MACARI
attributed, The Book of Football Quotations
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
TOMMY LASORDA
"Sideline Psychology: 18 Life Lessons from the World's Greatest Coaches", Men's Health, November 2007
Pressure is the aggregate of all the demands made on you ... stress is your response to an inappropriate level of pressure. It is a response to pressure, not the pressure itself.
T. ARROBA & K. JAMES
attributed, Handling Stress Positively
Pressure is a privilege.
BILLIE JEAN KING
Pressure Is a Privilege
If we decide that we are lightweight station wagons, then we better put a load limit; and if we would keep from pressure, we must refrain from assuming a responsibility that we cannot fill.
J. DWIGHT PENTECOST
Man's Problems, God's Answers
Life's pressure is equal to your resistance.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster!
ALEC MACKENZIE & PAT NICKERSON
The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management
She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
LORRIE MOORE
Like Life
If you want to be a successful player, you have to learn how to handle pressure -- how to stay cool when it counts, especially in big games.
MICHAEL PARKER
Premier Soccer
Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
BRIAN HERBERT
House Atreides
In the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.
TAYLOR STEVENS
The Doll
And I wander alone
Without haste without hope without fear
Without pressure or touch--
There is no moan
Of Souls dying
Nothing here
But the warm
Dry airless sweet scent
Of the alleys of death
Of the corridors of death
T. S. ELIOT
"In silent corridors of death"
One of the more subtle ways pressure influences our brains and behavior is by altering our thinking and distorting how we see events. Many people believe that how they see events is static--that it does not change. This couldn't be further from the truth. How we appraise a situation can and often does change. And pressure is one of the most powerful influences on our appraisal.
HENDRIE WEISINGER & J. P. PAWLIW-FRY
Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
If I don't have pressure, I don't function.
FERRAN ADRIA
interview, Toronto Life, March 13, 2014
Pressure comes from within and so must be mastered from within.
ED JACOBY
Winning Jumps and Pole Vault
The single most important question that we face when we are under pressure is: Do I see the situation as a crisis or a challenge?
HENDRIE WEISINGER & J. P. PAWLIW-FRY
Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
I can feel the pressure
It's getting closer now
We're better off without you
I can feel the pressure
It's getting closer now
We're better off without you
PARAMORE
"Pressure"
Pressure is not necessarily bad. Pressure can make you produce. The challenge of pressure is learning how to handle it--which requires developing internal confidence and inner strength.
PAULA WHITE
Deal With It!