Quotes About Pressure

We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors we faced were mainly physical, like running away from wild animals. Now they are almost entirely psychological. When was the last time you were frightened by a lion? The things that cause us stress in our modern world are the ones that go inside our heads.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

We are pummeled by innumerable rules, instructions, and laws that we are expected to know and heed; it's no wonder that we feel overwhelmed and exhausted.

Today, merely being born guarantees that you will face a never-ending stream of complexity within your home, on the highway, at work, and everywhere in between.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

No pressure, no diamonds. — Mary Case

I just hope someone doesn't start the Cheese Touch up again, because I don't need that kind of stress in my life any more.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

Everyone loves a success story," says Newton. "And once you succeed, everyone loves tearing you down.

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

Sometimes to deal with your problems you have to let off a little steam.

I'd developed such an unbearably bad headache that I now had an escape plan. I'd simply wait to my head to explode, and then use the distraction to flee.

Solitude could press down on a person, seem to demand that action be taken.

All I could think was, The psychologist lied to us, and suddenly the pressure of her presence far above, guarding the entrance, was pressing down on me in an intolerable way.

Cuando pensaba en el porvenir, una avalancha de días, apretujados los unos contra los otros, se le venía encima y se venía encima de su casa y de sus hijos. Para él, los días no contaban de la misma manera que contaban para los demás.

Some adults abused as children feel pressure to outperform everybody else. They believe that they must try harder and work harder because they are not as good. They may feel driven and obsessed.

Those most beset by commands are children. It is a miracle that they ever survive the pressure and do not collapse under the burden of the commands laid on them by their parents and teachers. That they in turn, and in equally cruel form, should give identical commands to their children is as natural as mastication or speech.

Some people have no more burden than an avocado going bad.

you think that your pushing me so hard for something you wanted made me kind of necessarily resist it? Would you admit that, would you say that you pushed way too hard?

Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

I have watched so many other people murder their creativity by demanding that their art pay the bills.

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late?