Quotes About Pressure

survival pressures within the organism play a role in its overall improvement under external stress.

This little bit of uncertainty might make the diner relax and forget the time pressures.

those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.

People who get promoted to important positions usually suffer from tightness of schedules: Everything has an allotted time.

by persons squeezed by life.

research on happiness shows that those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

Many are forced by peer and social pressures to do so

In these professions, no matter how highly paid, your income is subject to gravity.

so users were severely constrained by time.

Love is not felt to be real when it is always tied to performance, tied to living up to Mother's or Father's expectations

I was acutely conscious of the pressure to adapt and to absorb the values of the tribe--family, community, and culture. It seemed to me that what was asked was the surrender of my judgement and also my conviction that my life and what I made of it was of the highest possible value. I saw my contemporaries surrendering and losing their fire--and, sometimes in painful, lonely bewilderment, I wanted to understand why. Why was growing up equated with giving up?

In no state of society would he have been what is called a man of liberal views; it would always be essential to his peace to feel the pressure of a faith about him, supporting, while it confined him within its iron framework.

When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely…," Private Taylor wrote, "it would…demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because 'what could have been' is much more highly regarded than 'what should have been.' Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Fine, Connor tells him. Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen. I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

One could say, Ayn, that he has cast himself as Atlas. Which means the slightest shrug can shake the world.

But sometimes you get a career and then you suddenly realize you don't have a life. Or if you stay at home with your family, you suddenly realize that your life is actually everyone else's life, not your own. Either way, when you got all your eggs in one basket, the basket gets heavy. Maybe the eggs start to break.

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing, the Admiral once said. Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.

I feel as if my entire life depends on my holding it together.

I shouldn't be here," I appeal to the captain, wondering if I've told him this before. "I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends.

Have you ever considered how lonely it is to be the girl on a pedestal?