Quotes About Pressure

I seldom visit people's homes, for despite the hospitality offered I often suffer a feeling of confinement or imagined pressure.

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel.

Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

single-issue pressure groups driven by 'activists' have replaced pragmatic coalitions, while 'activism' has come to mean 'drawing attention' – ostensibly to the chosen issue, but in practice, perhaps most especially to oneself: 'I care about this.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There is a compelling tendency to forget who you are and what you were made for. There is a tendency to be shortsighted, myopic, and easily distracted. There is a tendency to settle for less when you have been created for more. There is something expansive, glorious, and eternal that is meant to give direction to everything you do.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life.

Instead of weakening us, the persecution just made us stronger. The more pressure there was, the more fire and love there was to spread the gospel.

But that's okay, he thought. If your client is truly innocent, the pressure to win is overwhelming. But a guilty client? Hey, if you lose, justice is done.

My desk was covered with little white telephone messages. Office confetti. You think the universe comes to a halt when you are locked into your own little world, but it doesn't. It goes on whether you're in trial or at war or under the surgeon's knife. Or dead.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Yet that's how it felt for years and years -- that Andover ground me beneath the heel of its Bass Weejuns because it needed losers to make its golden Adonises shine even brighter. I wandered through so lost and sad, I can't believe nobody ever asked me what was wrong. Nothing, I would have said, by which I would have meant Everything .

Because there's a clock attached to every beautiful woman. From the second she comes into her own, she begins to decline, because she begins to age. Aging is every beautiful woman's kryptonite. And so, yes, it's ridiculous and no, you don't have much time and of course it's not fair. Those three statements are the essence of beauty.

The structure of a friendship is seldom submitted to analysis until it comes under pressure;

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Enlisting allies: The blackmailer asks other people to pressure you. This seems to be most common when the person with BPD is a parent. In one case, a mother with BPD showed up at her daughter's door with four relatives to back her up.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

For ten years I had lived within an elusive circle defined by an unshared childhood; by the daily effort, like an extra pressure of the will, required to speak this uncannily familiar language which fit me like a second skin, without ever being mine.

Putting our expectations on others is an exercise in pressure and disappointment. Why not accept people just as they are? That's love.

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Polly

Teachers are discouraged because it is impossible for them to meet the demands being placed on them. They are asked to spend their days in the exhausting position of having to control and dominate children. They must herd, push, and pull them as one body through a set curriculum. Only those who have had to attempt this inhuman and unnatural endeavor could possibly appreciate the strain it places on the teacher who singlehandedly must accomplish it.