Quotes About Pressure

We rush to escape what makes us anxious, which makes us anxious, and so we rush some more.

Israel maintains its pressure on the Palestinian population not simply for its own security, then, but because such pressure has for four decades enabled it to maintain control over the territories- and, quite simply, because it encourages Palestinians to leave.

Apart from the question of fatigue, this soldier is convinced that the only function of his checkpoint is "to put pressure on the Palestinian population. Officers explicitly told me that the checkpoint has no security value and was meant to harass the population." Another soldier agrees. "The idea is to make life hard for the Palestinian citizenry. There is no operational objective.

The irony is that the more they achieve and the better they do, the less people are inclined to believe them, and the more they feel forced to then stay in the closet.

These women often believe they are fooling anyone who thinks well of them because without any warning the switch inside their heads could turn off and their feelings of inadequacy would be exposed. They worry that they won't have enough time, that their systems won't work, or that people will drop in unexpectedly. Any minute things could fall apart.

At some point, the demands on these girls and the pressures they feel and carry inside increase to the point that they are over their heads. No one knows what is going on: not their families, not their teachers, not their friends, and not even themselves.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

But I had to admit that maybe the reason I'd had a meltdown wasn't just about the shower. I think the shower door was, like, a metaphor. It represented everything that was bad.

Something was stretched to the point of irreparable damage, and I wanted to bounce on it until it broke.

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

By 19oo, anybody could end up "a `Nobody,"' plodding down the "many paths leading to the Land of `Nowhere."' Failure had become what it remains in the new millennium: the most damning incarnation of the connection between achievement and personal identity. "I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.

We develop ulcers, high blood pressure, headaches, and other physical problems in part because our stress systems aren't designed to handle the "dangers" of our brave new world: computer crashes, micromanaging bosses, 12-way conference calls, and long commutes in rush-hour traffic.

Our larger culture, and our pesky parents, push us toward decisions that seem to score well but are blind to the most important elements of healthy careers and meaningful lives.

You see a similar downward spiral at schools that try to measure teacher performance. They create new student tests for evaluating teachers that reduce time teachers have to teach real lessons, which lowers their scores, which, sad surprise, leads to more testing.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

If you finish first, your friends may become jealous, your family might think you've gotten too big for your britches, and your competition might put a target on your back. So it's better to not compete. Better, that is, for your friends, your family, and your competition. But it's not better for you. Donald Miller

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

I am hard pressed on my right; my center is giving way; situation excellent. I am attacking." General Ferdinand Foch

Under extremely powerful pressure peanut butter can be turned into diamonds.

Q: Why do men fart more frequently than women? A: Because women don't stay quiet long enough to build up the pressure.

Insiders say the pressure to succeed at Renaissance can be brutal. One mathematician at the fund may have succumbed to the pressure on March 1, 2006. That's when Alexander Astashkevich, a thirty-seven-year-old MIT graduate who worked at Renaissance, shot and killed his estranged wife in the small town of Port Jefferson, Long Island, before turning the shotgun on himself. He left behind a six-year-old son named Arthur.

The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.")

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.