Quotes About Pressure

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

The paper is due in five days" becomes "It's not due now," and the five days might as well be five months.

On a global scale we have the example of pollution. Individual humans have freely burned fossil fuels and greatly increased the amount of greenhouse gases such as CO2, leading to a continuing rise in the earth's temperature over the last century. The tiny particles also emitted have caused lung diseases and deaths. But each polluter gains more individually from his own actions than he loses, so he has no direct pressure to change.

In its simplest form, investors sell losing stocks before the end of the current year, realizing losses that reduce the year's income taxes. This behavior contributes to the so-called January effect where selling pressure in December further depresses the stock prices of the year's losers, followed by a rebound and excessive performance in January.

Perhaps the most influential is the family myth of dire consequences, in which we feel that we are absolutely indispensable for everything in the church to work; if we don't do our job, everything will fall

faster in areas of our life where effort and striving are, in fact, profoundly counterproductive. This is because the problem of choking or freezing up extends

You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.

These unwanted performance pressures are generated when new therapists frame what they don't know or can't do yet as a "deficit" or as evidence of their inadequacy, rather than more realistically framing it as merely their own inexperience.

What a burden it is to feel responsible for everything. The weight of the world drags you down until the pressure is so great, you no longer feel joyful. About anything.The world has become heavy. But you don't have to carry the world anymore.

most general officers never had a headache but they did invariably suffer from constant indigestion, a result of their inability to expel the gases that accumulated in them in the course of a day spent agreeing with everything their superiors said.

Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepare to make?

The American cult of rugged individualism makes human men think they're all supposed to be alphas, but it doesn't work that way.

Our culture has an idea of competition in the pursuit of excellence that can make anyone not striving for the top feel like a worthless, non-productive bystander. This applies not only to one's career but even to one's leisure.

We cannot "play" until all the details of our work are done. The details are like little needles of arousal poking us. But that can make it difficult to relax and have some fun.

Sometime in your past you entered a social situation (usually overstimulating to begin with) and felt that you failed. Others said you did something wrong

Few HSPs escape the pressure to be a good sport, normal, or pleasing to others, and even when those others are long gone, you keep on trying to please them.

It is not surprising that many sensitive adolescents meet the crisis by destroying their budding self so they will not have to watch it fail to bloom "right." And there are plenty of ways to self-destruct: marrying or having a baby in a way that imprisons one in a narrow, prescribed role; abusing drugs or alcohol; becoming physically or mentally incapacitated; joining a cult or organization that offers security and answers; or suicide.

Many children born very sensitive are pushed hard by parents, schools, or friends to be bolder. Living in a noisy or crowded environment, growing up in a large family, or being made to be more physically active may sometimes reduce sensitivity, just as sensitive animals that are handled a great deal will sometimes lose some of their natural caution, at least with certain people or in specific situations. That the underlying trait is entirely gone, however, seems unlikely.

when being watched, timed, or evaluated, we often cannot display our competence. Our deeper processing may make it seem that at first we are not catching on, but with time we understand and remember more than others.

Some of us get caught up in demands from others. These may be real responsibilities or may be the common ideas of what makes for success—money, prestige, security. Then there are the pressures others can bring to bear on us because we are so unwilling to displease anyone.

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments ' just isn't cool.