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Quotes about Pressure

Because of the pressure to fit in and to please, we can find ourselves making decisions that don't align with our highest good. When we make decisions from the fear of being judged and/or rejected, we doom ourselves to this people-pleasing brand of decision-making.
— Andy Stanley
If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.
— Andy Stanley
I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
— Justin Welby
When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.
— Pete Holmes
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.
— Paulo Coelho
The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.
— Aldous Huxley
Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.
— Aldous Huxley
The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.
— Charlie Munger
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
— Anne Lamott
Winning is very addictive, that's why it's very hard when suddenly - boom - you are not the favorites any more.
— Christian Horner
I thought it'd be different. Kind of like, a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders, as I don't have to worry about finances for the rest of my life, or my family's. But it wasn't like that. It was more - there's things I need to get done.
— Giancarlo Stanton