Best Pressured Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And instantly I felt like the child who panics when she starts seeing back-to-school ads on TV in July: Don't they know that school doesn't start for two whole months?”

Relatable Pressured Back To School

Book:The Violets of March

Source: The Violets of March

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”

Judging Critics Life Experience Not Knowing Bias Upbringing Life Experiences Opinions Guessing Assumptions Brainwashed View Pressured Limited Knowledge Limited Perspective Coheresed Not Enough Information

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“So many people turn to unhealthy solutions to deal with their anxiety, fears, worries and physical, mental or emotional struggles. When you’re feeling pressured or worried, either Produce, Pray, Work Out or just Breathe. Turn your Pressure into Power and Productivity. You Got This.”

Prayer Anxiety Pressure Productivity Fears Worries Pressured Diamond In The Rough Deliverance From Heaviness Pressure Makes Diamonds

Author:Jeanette Coron

“A pressed person is obsessed with passion. He is blessed when impressed with an opportunity to express himself; if otherwise he gets messed up in distress.”

Leader Distress Impress Pressured Pressed

Book:Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“She had been adamant that she would never be Princess Belle, eager to avoid the false trappings that came with a title so flimsy in a principality. But queen of a kingdom in its own right? That was no empty title.”

Queen Belle Pressured Title Suddenly Royal

Book:Rebel Rose

Source: Rebel Rose

“Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.”

Hard Enough Feelings Emotional Pressure Dishes Paralysis Pressured

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.”

Knows Feels Persons Boring Pressured

Author:Lorrie Moore

“I felt pressured by continuous touring.”

Felt Touring Pressured

Author:Andy Partridge

“Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Different Country Matter Information Expected Newspapers Journalist Different Ways Thrown Iran Print Wrong Things Iranian Pressured Intelligence Services

Author:Steve Inskeep

“Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.”

People Sometimes Loses Silent Pressured Nigeria Independence

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.”

Love Mind Political Love You Intellectual Scary Terrorism Political Correctness Intimidated Correctness Politically Correct Insistence Pressured Really Scary Anti Political Changing My Mind

Author:Mel Gibson

“...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”

“Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.”

Men Use Body Access Denial Customs Women's Bodies Pressured Socialization Disadvantaged

Author:Catharine MacKinnon

“There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family...”

Kids Sports Mistake Too Much Influence Media Negative Athlete Making Mistakes Pressured Professional Athlete Sports In General

Author:Kristopher Belman

“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.”

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.”

Parent Acting Advise Pressured

Author:Emilia Fox

“And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.”

Ifs Feels Writing Serious Prose What You Love Pressured

Author:Cassandra Clare

“There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.”

People Whole Bunch Shops Online Shopping Pressured

Author:Jeff Bezos

“People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.”

People Ifs Want Pearls Bothered Pressured

Author:Marlo Thomas

“There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.”

“Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.”

Ifs Way Want May Might Film Energy Loses Perfect Effort Letting Go Direct Bases Responsible Consistent Being Responsible Time And Energy Pressured Pleasing Everyone

Author:Jennifer Phang

“I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.”

People Stories Felt Pressured Dealing With People Aggravating

Author:Tucker Max

“I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a friend might play me one, and there was generally a bit of an edgy sound to it, which was mainly due to the digital equipment that we were using, which was state of the art at the time - and I think everyone felt pressured to be working that way.”

Thinking Way Art States Play Might Felt Stuff Bits Sound Track Radio Dues Occasions Digital Equipment Edgy Pressured Old Stuff

Author:Kate Bush

“I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a great manager who keeps our coffers topped off, and we give ourselves a sensible wage with a view to having three fallow years between records. We always make sure we have enough money to make a record and not be pressured time-wise.”

Thinking Giving Years Enough Kids Three Views Successful Records Wise Band Managers Great Men Sensible Elbows Pressured Great Managers

Author:Guy Garvey

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!”

Thinking Want Feels Bits Radio Reflecting Actuality Pressured

Author:Pharoahe Monch

“'m very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't really have any concept of who looks at my work online. I don't think it's viewed that much online.”

Thinking Feels Looks Situation Conscious Concepts Online Viewers Pressured

Author:Frances Stark

“If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.”

Ifs Persons Faults Orange Juice Pressured Orange Juice

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.”

Way Want Feels Wells Mean Made Changed Ready Sick Checks Uncomfortable Crucial Insecure Starting Over Get Well Things Have Changed Pressured Being Sick

Book:Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.”

World Want Wells Mother Perspective Lucky Pressured

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

Thinking Way Courses Accepting Example Position Like You Authority Prisoner Syndromes Submissive Pressured Stockholm

Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?”

Love Dream Greater Loneliness Really Great Bondage Pressured

Author:Sumiko Tan

“I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.”

Trying Firsts Philosophy Would Be Break Novel Environment Capture Pressured

Author:Karan Bajaj

“The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.”

People Thinking Feels Asks Wife Mets Husband Standing Crowds My Wife Dancer Embarrassing Only Time Pressured Ginger Showtime

Author:Gene Kelly

“We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.”

Rights Court Supreme Womens Rights Supreme Court Pressured

Author:Jill Stein

“The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.”

People Want May Home Millions Happened Danger Example Huge Republican Majors Program Democrat Including Administration Budgets Empires Neglect Expansion Back Home Diversion Pressured

Author:Ralph Nader

“The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.”

States Done United United States Succeed Administration Barack Borders Reaching Mexico Mexican Pressured Mexican Border

Author:Noam Chomsky

“What I think a lot of that was K-1 having had their Grand Prix finals not even a month before the "Dynamite!!" show so a lot of those guys were coming into that fight pressured to fight.”

Thinking Shows Guy Fighting Months Finals Dynamite Pressured Grand Prix

Author:Shawn Tompkins

“I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.”

Thinking Feels Should Streets Direct Sucker Pressured Debit

Author:Kate Thornton

“Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want, for your own reasons, without being forced or pressured into wearing what's considered societally required because of your sex.”

Want Should Believe Mean Reason Happens Sex Feminism Treated Pressured

Author:Laura Bates

“The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.”

Men Should Children Ends Facts Problem Jobs Roles Concern Negative Female Paid Impact Caring Accepted Explanation Wages Having Children Part Time Positive Impact Pressured

Author:Laura Bates

“When we feel pressured to have achieved certain things by a particular age, it could ultimately hinder us. It's great to have goals but those specific benchmarks can easily become irrelevant once you ask yourself, 'where am I having the most impact?' 'Am I going after the stories I want to tell?'”

Want Feels Stories Age Certain Asks Goal Particular Impact Irrelevant Hinder Pressured

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.”

Thinking Way Feels Should Writing West South East New Ways Pressured Outwitting Writing And Thinking

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.”

People Men Way Feels Should Joy Spirit Causes Simple Keys Holy Expectations Tradition Filled Peaceful Miserable Holy Spirit Confused Frustrated Way To Live Peaceful Life Pressured Simple Joys

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.”

Knows Feels Looks Mean Made Feelings Kids Guy Family Dad Twenties My Dad Fathers Day Great Feelings Pressured Fathers Day Inspirational Happy Fathers Day Inspirational Father

Author:Adam Sandler

“Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.”

Needs Doe Two Country Reason Running Loses Leader Judgment Israel Senses Nerves Traits Panic Steel Pressured

Author:Ariel Sharon

“I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.”

Certain Comfort Smoking Marijuana Peers Pressured

Author:Christy Turlington

“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.”

Evil Force Lines Hero Crosses Good And Evil Heroic Social Psychology Pressured

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”

“Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.”

Source: Status Anxiety

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