463 Quotes About Pressure

As much as I loved all the academic and extracurricular work I did, I hated the intense pressure to succeed: pressure from my parents and pressure from within myself. And, specifically, pressure to succeed in something that would land me a lucrative job out of college rather than what necessarily what made me happiest.

There hadn’t really been any decision. As she dragged the round-topped trunk up the steps and propped its lid against the table, she was thinking that you never really made up your mind to anything. You simply bent where the pressure was greatest. You didn’t surrender, because surrender was annihilation, but you gave before the pressure.

Hearing loss is a known effect of high altitude barotrauma.

Free oxygen is available to all at sea level.

Only the brave wake up from a bad dream.

The sweat rolled down Jacob’s forehead. It made an ocean on his palms. The chronometer showed just five and a half minutes remaining. Time was the greatest pressure beneath the sea.

They say pressure can turn even a grain of sand into a pearl under the right circumstances.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck at it no matter how much heat or pressure they faced.

Pressure will squeeze whining out of losers and winning out of achievers.