quotations about pressure
How we handle pressure will determine whether we stand or break.
ED HINDSON
Trusting God When Times Are Tough
Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
TATYANA TOLSTAYA
The Independent, May 31, 1990
For each individual, there is a point of optimal performance or "eustress," at which he is stretched to a level where the outcome of pressure is still positive. Before reaching this point, the individual would be experiencing boredom, if for example he was engaged in repetitive work or an undemanding job for a long period of time and hence finding no stimulation or interest anymore. If demands or pressure were to continue to increase beyond the individual's optimal performance point, then he or she would start being unable to cope, and go into the "distress" phase and eventually "exhaustion." The effects of pressure are now negative and performance suffers as well. This also explains why quite often people even though they try really hard feel their output is actually decreasing the more effort they put in.
DENIS SARTAIN & MARIA KATSAROU
Under Pressure
Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders
When I see men run into wild and visionary speculations, working on the high pressure principle, make or break, they open the wrong valve, may break a shaft, and make themselves out of boat and home, and leave their passengers to manage the wreck on their own.
L. C. JUDSON
attributed, Day's Collacon