Quotes About Pressure

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

Courage has been described as "grace under pressure".

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I DECLARE there is an anointing of ease on my life. God is going before me making crooked places straight. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. I will not continually struggle. What used to be difficult will not be difficult anymore. God's favor and blessing on my life is lightening the load and taking the pressure off. This is my declaration.

After all God doesn't want you to be an imitation of someone else. You should be the original you were created to be. There is an anointing on your life, an empowerment. Not to be somebody else, but to be you. If you let people squeeze you into their molds and you bow down to their pressure to try to please your critics, it not only takes away your uniqueness, but it also lessens the favor on your life.

In our weakness, God's strength shows up the greatest. Take the pressure off. There's freedom when you can be at peace with not being perfect.

It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not. Knowing what you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who you are, because there will always be pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other.

You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.

How much time and energy are you spending trying to get approval, trying to be well-liked, trying to keep this friend impressed, trying to stay in this coworker's favor? Take the pressure off. I would much rather spend my time pleasing God than trying to please people.

Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules. I think this kind of motivation is brain-dead. When I'm behind schedule, I feel doomed and depressed and unmotivated. When I'm working ahead of schedule, I'm cheerful and productive. The schedule is not the place to play psychological games.

We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.