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Quotes About Pressures

Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.
~ Patti Scialfa
So many things constrain us, from so many directions.
~ Peter Watts
We talk about players going broke, but we don't talk about why that is happening.
~ Luol Deng
The weight of this unexplained and perhaps greatest event, which only due to a misunder- standing has gained the reputation of being arbitrary and cruel, presses us (I think increasingly) more evenly and more deeply into life and places the utmost obligations on our slowly growing strengths
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Parenting stress, the range of pressures and worries that comes with the role of being a parent, is often significantly influenced by your own expectations, beliefs, and sense of your duties as a parent, and by your child's reactions to them.
~ Alan E. Kazdin
A pioneering work in the study of neurasthenia, American Nervousness builds its case through an elaborate mechanical metaphor: the nervous system is like a machine presently under strain in response to the pressures of the machinery of civilized life.
~ Alan Trachtenberg
Most of the Iroquois, however warlike, suspected it was in their own best interests to sit this one out. But that was not easily done, for the pressures to become involved only intensified.
~ Ray Raphael
As hackneyed and cliche as it sounds, follow your heart. We are all given intuition and instincts, and sometimes it is hard to follow those instincts with the fears and pressures that surround us - but you have to do it.
~ Michael Feinstein
The young intellectual in the United States today very often feels, almost from the outset of his career, the distractions and pressures attendant upon success, the consequences of a new state of affairs in our cultural life, which is encouraging but also exasperating
~ Richard Hofstadter
I always tell my mom I don't have regular problems. I have problems, like, what type of girl is going to say they're pregnant by me today? Those are the types of issues I have.
~ Fetty Wap
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
~ Ville Valo
Your troubles, pressures, fears, and uncertainties will shoot you to greatness if only you trust in God.
~ WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)
Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.
~ Ed Davey
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
~ L. Lionel Kendrick
there is no question that social pressures nudge people to accept some pretty odd conclusions—and those conclusions might well affect their behavior.
~ Richard H. Thaler
Once violence is understood to be a behavior, not a pathology, the fact that it was responsive to social pressures no longer seems mysterious.
~ Richard Rhodes
Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.
~ John F. Kennedy
Second Corinthians speaks concerning the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. The ministry is not merely a matter of gift. A person may be able to speak fluently and eloquently and give many good illustrations and proverbs, but this is just a gift. What the church, the Body, needs today is the ministry.
~ Witness Lee
Human-caused ecological pressures and disruptions are bringing animal pathogens ever more into contact with human populations, while human technology and behavior are spreading those pathogens ever more widely and quickly.
~ David Quammen
Human-caused ecological pressures and disruptions are bringing animal pathogens ever more into contact with human populations, while human technology and behavior are spreading those pathogens ever more widely and quickly. There are three elements to the situation.
~ David Quammen
Dicho de la manera más tajante: las presiones y disrupciones ecológicas de origen humano sitúan a los patógenos animales en contacto creciente con las poblaciones humanas, al tiempo que nuestra tecnología y comportamiento diseminan esos patógenos cada vez más amplia y más rápidamente.
~ David Quammen
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
~ Jena Malone
Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him.
~ Tiger Shroff
Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.
~ Myles Munroe