Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
I want to make sure that people feel it's okay to make a mistake, to have a bad hair day, to look bad sometimes. It takes the pressure off them.
For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure.
When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.
Sometimes the most important word is no. It takes the pressure off.
Tar sands oil is dirtier, more corrosive, and worse for the environment than conventional oil.
It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.
The more you release records, in some ways it takes pressure off you.
The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.