#pressure

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

Relief is a great feeling. It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative. And yet, think about it—relief is really the status quo, a negation of the suffering, a nothing in itself. It is the way things were before the pressure and struggle began. So, is it a step back? A regression? Or is it an opportunity to regroup, start over, and move in a different direction? Use your moment of relief well. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#alleviation #freedom #liberation #pressure #relief

A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there. ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

#inspiration #time-pressure #writing #inspirational

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you. ↗

— Paula Knoderer Hrbacek

#choices #decisions #inspirational #peer-pressure #religion

We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#episode #episodes #lot #pressure #sometimes

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do? ↗

— Miguel Cabrera

#coming #doing #feel #how #i

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#anywhere #authentic #except #feel #felt

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple. ↗

— Tim Cook

#apple #does #i #microsoft #pressure

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#argument #concern #heart #human #more

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#common #pressure #psyche #stress