Quotes about Pressures

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications. Votes: 1

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. Votes: 1

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. Votes: 1

Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures. Votes: 1

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. Votes: 1

Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair. Votes: 1

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. Votes: 1

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them. Votes: 1

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. Votes: 1

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. Votes: 1

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations. Votes: 1

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. Votes: 1

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past? Votes: 1

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon. Votes: 1

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day. Votes: 1

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self. Votes: 1

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you. Votes: 1

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. Votes: 1

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image. Votes: 1

In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself. Votes: 1

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. Votes: 1

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. Votes: 1

One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work. Votes: 1

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape. Votes: 1

Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves? Votes: 1

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man. Votes: 1

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. Votes: 0

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion. Votes: 0

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. Votes: 0

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. Votes: 0

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. Votes: 0

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures. Votes: 0

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures. Votes: 0

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life. Votes: 0

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries. Votes: 0

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced. Votes: 0

I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol. Votes: 0

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too... Votes: 0

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden? Votes: 0

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. Votes: 0

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems. Votes: 0

There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong. Votes: 0

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures. Votes: 0

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me. Votes: 0

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me. Votes: 0

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. Votes: 0

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes Votes: 0

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death. Votes: 0

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too. Votes: 0

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. Votes: 0

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. Votes: 0

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. Votes: 0

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. Votes: 0

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction. Votes: 0

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures. Votes: 0

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures. Votes: 0

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels. Votes: 0

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me. Votes: 0

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want. Votes: 0

Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures. Votes: 0

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures. Votes: 0

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport. Votes: 0

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. Votes: 0

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement. Votes: 0

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. Votes: 0

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand. Votes: 0

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited. Votes: 0

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling. Votes: 0

Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin. Votes: 0

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. Votes: 0

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons--new and uncertain nations--new pressures of population and deprivation. Votes: 0

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart. Votes: 0

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house? Votes: 0

If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures. Votes: 0

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary. Votes: 0

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. Votes: 0

In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth. Votes: 0

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains. Votes: 0

Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system. Votes: 0

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship. Votes: 0

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. Votes: 0

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. Votes: 0

I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life. Votes: 0

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you. Votes: 0

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. Votes: 0

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves. Votes: 0

So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world. Votes: 0

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. Votes: 0

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. Votes: 0

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. Votes: 0

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about. Votes: 0

I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family. Votes: 0

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself. Votes: 0

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment. Votes: 0

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts. Votes: 0

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. Votes: 0

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift. Votes: 0

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. Votes: 0

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies. Votes: 0

God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all. Votes: 0

Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures. Votes: 0

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism. Votes: 0

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind. Votes: 0

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries. Votes: 0

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested. Votes: 0

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job. Votes: 0

I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures. Votes: 0

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours. Votes: 0

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. Votes: 0

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react. Votes: 0

For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced. Votes: 0

You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse. Votes: 0

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now. Votes: 0

Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense. Votes: 0

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations. Votes: 0

No matter how crazed you get, no matter what pressures you're under, no matter who needs what by yesterday... Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life. Votes: 0

You get caught up sometimes in the deadlines and the pressures and certain things that you can't really control that you forget that this is supposed to be an enjoyable journey. Votes: 0

There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality. Votes: 0

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. Votes: 0

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating. Votes: 0

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us. Votes: 0

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base Votes: 0

We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy. Votes: 0

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess. Votes: 0

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward. Votes: 0

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties. Votes: 0

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave. Votes: 0

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. Votes: 0

Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision. Votes: 0

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk. Votes: 0

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.' Votes: 0

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. Votes: 0

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters Votes: 0

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. Votes: 0

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under. Votes: 0

While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed. Votes: 0

I hate the fact that we all feel the pressure to go to gyms, have a trainer if money allows, get jogging - all those societal pressures to keep fit and look a certain way. Votes: 0

I don't think I'll ever get used to the pressures of fame. I have two-pointsomething million followers on Twitter, and if I say something, they all listen. It's crazy! I shouldn't be allowed that responsibility. Votes: 0

I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures. Votes: 0

In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge. Votes: 0