Quotes About Pressure

I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold.

I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

I cannot help but think that, had I lived in a culture where "thinness" was not regarded as a strange state of grace, I might have sought out another means of attaining that grace

I can't say no, I can't slow down, I have to keep going or they'll find out I'm a little kid in grownup's clothes, and a fraud.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Unless we understand how it really works and find a a way to express it, giftedness can become a heavy burden.

Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.

The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond.

He'd give anything to be out there playing instead of standing here watching. Trying to maintain this smile out of respect. He digs into his wrists some more with his nails. Breaks previously broken skin and pulls away. A smear of blood he wipes away with his other hand, rubs off across his dark jeans. Back home his mom is always on him to stop digging, but that only makes him want to dig more." -exerpt from "Mexican White Boy

Starting today, you're retired. The way you look at this sport and the pressure you put on yourself are just all wrong. You started doing triathlon because you loved it. Let's go back to that. Let's just see how fit, how fast, and how strong Siri Lindley can be—and have fun doing it.

Your physical capacities are only part of the big picture," he told the gathering. "If your spirit is happy and strong, then you're stable under pressure.

A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.

I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.

If we are being sold the idea of cool via a pair of trousers, we subconsciously feel a pressure to obtain and maintain that coolness. And all too often, when we have spent a lot of money on a desired item, we have a sinking feeling. The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more. We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.

Actually, depression can be exacerbated by things being all right externally, because the gulf between what you are feeling and what you are expected to feel becomes larger.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.

Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

Why do so many men still kill themselves? What is going wrong? The common answer is that men, traditionally, see mental illness as a sign of weakness and are reluctant to seek help. Boys don't cry.

It's such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.' —Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram

The more 'success' you get, the easier it is to be disappointed by not getting things. The only difference is that now no one feels sorry for you.