“Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.” CareersMomDadPressure Author:Stacie Orrico
“I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women, that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.” PeopleWantSaidMotherCareersHavensFemalePressureFocusedDrivenSelfish Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingHardReasonFacesFoundSocialBitsCareersMediaNew YorkCoupleWindowPressureGlassesSocial MediaPlatesRumorPinsRespectableOnce Upon A TimeExterior Author:Margaret Atwood
“I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable.” PeopleFeelsTermCareersSuccessfulSweetPressureDrivenIntimateBeing SuccessfulIntimate RelationshipsVery Sweet Author:Mickey Sumner
“. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.” IfsMenSelfOpinionClassCareersResearchPressureMereProfessionMaking MoneySelf RespectDishesPublic OpinionDisinterested Book:My Apprenticeship Source: My Apprenticeship
“Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing something wrong with the satellite that a country was depending on for its communications, to making some mistake that could actually cost you and the crew either a mission or your lives. So there is a lot of pressure that's put on every astronaut to just make sure that he or she understands exactly what to do, exactly when to do it, and is trained and prepared to carry it out.” CountryEarthMistakeCareersCommunicationCostScientistPressurePreparedMissionsExperimentsRuinsMaking MistakesCrewAstronautSatellites Author:Sally Ride
“I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.” YearsDoneIndividualCareersAmountSixGoldPressureOlympicsMedalGold MedalsGet It DoneProfessional Career Author:Michael Johnson