Quotes About Pressure

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

I hate auditioning. I just can't do it. I get so nervous, like cripplingly nervous. I'm bad at them, and I feel awful afterward.

Indeed, an honest acceptance of this fact would enable both parties to cope with reality without the additional defensive pressure. With a diminution of this pressure and the subsequent relaxation for both parent and child, they may even come to have genuine regard and loving feelings toward one another.

In the modern world, we often find ourselves in the unnatural position of meeting someone who knows little or nothing about us. That can add a little pressure to the occasion, and it may add more if your mother was prone to saying "You get only one chance to make a good first impression!" You may find yourself scanning the person for feedback so intensively that you start seeing things that aren't there.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

I wanted to stop and think, but the anxiety wouldn't let me. Do it now, do something now, do anything now. The drive to be doing, doing anything, was a pressing need that could not be denied.

One of her nice dresses. What her mother meant was something more fashionable. Molly favored dark skirts and simple white blouses. Clothing that was practical and allowed her to move and breathe. Ruth Everton wanted her daughter in handsome suits with gathered flounces and lots of fringe, and a corset that laced her into the perfect S shape that fashion demanded. Forget breathing altogether.

It has already been noted that children in dysfunctional families feel responsible for their family's problems and also for solving them. There are basically three ways in which children attempt to save their families: by being invisible, ,by being bad, or by being good.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

It's different for guys. They don't feel the same way about proms that girls do. Girls see it as a chance to feel like a princess. Guys see it as a chance to have sex.

with grades, with scores. I always had to be the best in my class. It felt like the only way I could measure my success, my self-worth. If you knew the time I put into preparing for the MCAT you wouldn't believe it—it verged on OCD. It's that insane.

Then why not slow down a little? What happened? You've got Viagra with an expiration date or something?

Kids with anxiety issues were in psychic pain, and nobody knew that better than he did. Anybody could be pushed over the edge, given the right circumstances.

She always tried to be professional, but she'd been so professional that she'd almost killed someone.

hers was just one of many loud voices, since the ears of all haenyeo are damaged over time by water pressure.

Honestly, it's the most you can ask of men sometimes. They're so wound up, so buried beneath layers of "boys don't cry," and "pussy," and "man up," that they don't even know how to feel about anything. I should know.

It's so hard for the strongest among us to stay sane, isn't it, under the conditions we have come to think of as normal?

The more you want from the world, the more it holds you by the throat.

God help you in America if you are not thin and fit, attractive, athletic, and coordinated, driven to win at any cost. God help you if you are broken or sad, or even just cerebral, or artistic, or just want to be left alone. You will be told in a million different ways—directly, subliminally—just how deficient you are. But nowhere will the message be

What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?

The Clique... The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

There's this expectation that we should all be sexual beings, but the fact is, not all of us are, particularly.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, Maria said finally.