Pressure Quotes
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![Robert McKee](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207310602i/27312.jpg)
“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”)”
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![Alice Oseman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1603122242i/7789423._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I stopped speaking. There was no point trying to argue. There was no way she was going to even attempt to listen to me.
They never do, do they? They never even try to listen to you.”
― Radio Silence
They never do, do they? They never even try to listen to you.”
― Radio Silence
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“When rain and tears are making a trip together, emotions can be coming under pressure. But the fluid bond between the power of nature and the frailty of the soul may also smash the weight of the burden and create a liberating mental flow opening new insights. (“Rainman”)”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“If brainstorming becomes 'blamestorming' by reason of time pressure or on account of pure laziness, the truth may be assaulted and unyieldingly vilified . Blamestorming becomes then downright a perfidious appeal to scapegoating with a torrent of frantic manhunts for 'culprits on duty'. ('Blamestorming')”
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Portia de Rossi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1288918725i/3405767._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didn't win, then we wouldn't tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun.”
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
![Dan Pearce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639307515i/3994285._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic of that person. It becomes the first thing people think about and often the first thing they mention. Every other part of that person all but disappears.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Stephanie Pearl-McPhee](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267420574i/29391._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.”
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![Dan Pearce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639307515i/3994285._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
![Craig Ferguson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209559121i/77426._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't. ”
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![Dan Pearce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639307515i/3994285._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won’t one day be the end of me.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon.”
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![Dan Pearce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639307515i/3994285._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.
I am finally conceding the truth to me.
I am something other than straight.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
I am finally conceding the truth to me.
I am something other than straight.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Jeff Foster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1447757304i/244513._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all, by the vastness of the possibilities, by the myriad of perspectives available to you. You feel so pressed down sometimes, by all the unresolved questions, by all the information you are supposed to process and hold, by the urgency of things. You are overcome by powerful emotions, trying to make it all "work out" somehow, trying to get everything done "on time," trying to resolve things so fast, even trying not to try at all.
You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it? You are exhausted; you long to rest. And that is not a failing of yours, not a horrible mistake, but something wonderful to embrace!”
― Way of Rest
You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it? You are exhausted; you long to rest. And that is not a failing of yours, not a horrible mistake, but something wonderful to embrace!”
― Way of Rest
“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.”
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![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
![Lorrie Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224046427i/11746._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Like Life
― Like Life
![Taylor Stevens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334167373i/4119134._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, 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.
But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces.”
― The Doll
But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces.”
― The Doll
![Ashley Poston](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1603175651i/4279769._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Jess paints a pretty picture of an orchestra, but if we are one, then I'm the first chair violinist... who's been doused in gasoline and handed a match by the fans to watch me play while going up in flames.”
― Geekerella
― Geekerella
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