Thrive Under Pressure Quotes

#1. Your job is obviously very pressured."
"I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since ...
Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.

David Lagercrantz

#3. Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

Henry Cavill

#4. Deep breath ... I am peaceful, I am strong.

Jewel E. Ann

#5. A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

Jack McDevitt

#7. There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

Galen Rowell

#8. If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.

Michael Josephson

#9. Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

Bram Stoker

#10. Redistribution of this e-book is permitted, so long as it is distributed for free.

Andy Weir

#11. A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Michael Bay

#12. But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.

Gillian Flynn

#13. I do not know why, because that is not my job, but history shows that every time a teenage boy opens a permanent marker, he will first sniff it before deciding how to go about defacing the planet.

Andrew Smith

#14. I like pressure. I thrive on it.

Sue Bird

#15. Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Edward Hoagland

#16. There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Joanna Scott

#17. The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

Neal Stephenson

#18. Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

Tom Peters

#19. I slammed the door in her face and applied my bloody shoe to the lurkers in the bathtub,

Deanna Raybourn