Quotes About Pressure

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

Carrying this secret around was a heavier burden than a backpack full of textbooks.

Uno se siente más cómodo y protegido en las afueras de la felicidad –igual que en las afueras de las ciudades o en las afueras de la gente–, sin tanta presión encima, con más espacio libre para moverse y, llegado el caso, bailar.

That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.

the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.

I don't know if you've ever been driven very slowly through a crowd of screaming fans, in full view of the world's media, on a gold-painted golf cart with a pair of enormous illuminated glasses and a bow tie on the front, but if you haven't, I can tell you that it's a pretty excruciating experience.

Presumably already alive to the thought that I might go off the rails thanks to my inability to eat celery in the correct way, he resolutely believed that rock and roll was going to result in my utter degradation.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

What makes or determines a strong/courageous man or woman is his/her ability to face, withstand and live through pressure/tough time/hardship/challenges. So, you've got to toughen yourself in order to tough it out.

I just hate feeling like there's some timeline trying to tell me when I have to get to each new step. It feels like everyone's taking the elevator up to some secret penthouse party, and I'm not even allowed to take a peek. And if everyone goes up before I do, will they lock the door?

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

La puntualidad es una variedad de la «locura del escrúpulo». Por llegar a la hora, yo sería capaz de cometer un crimen.

Society - an inferno of saviors!

Having enemies is a heavy responsibility. My burden is sufficient, I no longer can carry that of others as well.

Nu am dureri de cap, ci mai r?u: o ap?sare permanent? pe creier, o not? funebr? în spirit.

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants ... which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

The constant pressure of custom; the effects of imitation, of education, and of habit; the incalculable influence of man on man, produce a working uniformity of conviction more effectually than the gallows and the stake, though without the cruelty, and with far more than the wisdom that have usually been vouchsafed to official persecutors.

Time is their tyrant: it fails them, it escapes them; they can neither expand it nor cut it short.

I'm talking about the lie that says you have to live a proper life, or else you'll be ruined. I worked so hard to be respectable, because I was afraid of what would happen.

I just want to rebel completely against everything in society that beat it into me that life would turn out okay if I only did the right things

I have these two different images of her etched into my memory: one as this idealized mother, and the other as a sort of pressure weighing down on me - obsessive, feminine love.

This is a problem for Irish writers--our literary forebears are enormous. They stand behind us like Easter Island statues, and we keep trying to measure up to them, leaping towards heights we can't possibly reach. I suppose that's a good thing, but it makes for a painful early life for the writer.