Quotes About Pressure

squirmed under the pressure. The leader squatted down and sorted through the

Burdens accrue in isolation.

Clarity is achieved when concretes are united by a concept and a concept is seen to be a union of those concretes. The two gravest breaches of clarity are: a set of unrelated instances that causes too much pressure on consciousness and a floating abstraction untied to reality. These

In his essay for Wired, Thompson writes that "we're learning to live in front of a crowd." That's precisely the problem. The strain of living in front of a crowd, 24/7, 365 days a year, is what causes real celebrities to fall apart. Remember Britney Spears shaving her head and attacking that car with an umbrella? Spears was 25 years old at the time. She wasn't a teenager. She was (or was supposed to be) a mature adult. She was the mother of two young children.

Why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal.

Why does everyone want to own me? Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone? Because you're beautiful, Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. People always think they can own beautiful things.

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. "A pro, I see." "What else is there to do in Ohio?

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

What happened to the winner Adina asked. She tripped. And the first runner-up? Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.

You know, people, just being beautiful isn't enough. Tiara looked confused. But... it always has been.

Os melhores alunos da minha escola vendem drogas para os melhores alunos da sua.

Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag or something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?

Sí, era demasiado. Por dentro se sentía como si fuera demasiado continuamente.

The Wishy-Washy Wimp is so paralyzed by fear and anxiety that he or she cannot make a move if there is pressure to perform. Even an action to save another person's life might be avoided. Wishy-Washy

As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.

I'm filled with the age-old terror of making a mistake, looking foolish. How is it we all leave high school, but high school never leaves us? Bob

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.