Work Pressure Quotes

“As usual, the deed was less daunting than the thought of it.”
― Osamu Tezuka, Buddha, Vol. 3: Devadatta

“Don’t think that without this or that you can’t be happy. Go ahead and try your best to have what you want, but in the meantime you can still be happy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“Belichick was the most successful person in an increasingly unhinged profession. Dick Vermeil was a cautionary tale when he resigned from the Philadelphia Eagles in 1983, having burned himself out at age 46. By the mid-2000s, something about the job was so broken that it seemed only an intervention could fix it. The hours, the pressure, the biological imperative to win—all of it conspired to make coaches believe that if they could just bend time to their will, Sundays would break their way. The job turned good men into assholes, or maybe it self-selected for assholes. Joe Gibbs of Washington once told a story from the 1980s about a time his eight-year-old son, Coy, spent the day at work with him. But Gibbs was so consumed, he didn’t realize Coy was there. “Never even thought about him!” Gibbs later said.”
― Seth Wickersham, It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness