壓力
"I love the pressure. I love the big moments."
"No pressure, no diamonds."
"Pressure can burst pipes or make diamonds."
"A personality is a full congress of orators and pressure groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-makers, adventurers and clerks; with each of these in a minority of one."
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
"Courage is grace under pressure."
What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. It was an amazing privilege…and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on.
"I'm interested in the human condition and how people react under extreme pressure."
There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.
I don’t like stress. I don’t like debt. I don’t like to worry. So I try to buy things that are cheap enough so that if they don’t work out, I don’t lose much.