Handling Pressure At Work Quotes & Sayings

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Mr. Landowsky was eighty-two and somehow his chest had shrunk over the years, and now he was forced to hike his pants up under his armpits.
"Oi," he said. "This heat! I can't breathe. Somebody should do something."
I assumed he was talking about God.
"That weatherman on the morning news. He should be shot. How can I go out in weather like this? And then when it gets so hot they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs."
I was glad I owned a gun, because when I got as old as Mr. Landowsky I was going to eat a bullet. The first time I got the runs in the supermarket, that was it. BANG! It would all be over. — Janet Evanovich

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom. — J.R. Rim

didn't dare ask where she would stop the machine, and still less, why there. I didn't think she'd tell me anyway. — Magda Szabo

Did something drastic, I took a risk, I fell in love ... but the only problem is that I might die for the man I love. — Toni Aleo

every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult. — John Wyndham

Mr. Okada," she said, "I believe that you are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur. The disappearance of your cat is only the beginning." "Different things," I said. "Good things or bad things?" She tilted her head in thought. "Good things and bad things. Bad things that seem good at first, and good things that seem bad at first." "To me, that sounds very general," I said. — Haruki Murakami

I'm trying to please myself; certainly that's a big criterion ... though in a sense, I don't take images just for myself. I take images that I think other people will want to see. I don't take pictures to put in a box and hide them. I want as many people to see them as possible. — Mary Ellen Mark

I tell my story, not because its unique, but because its not, it is the story of many girls — Malala Yousafzai

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated. — Levon Aronian

Things work out; it isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. — Gordon B. Hinckley

His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer."
--from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes — Shaun Whiteside