Self Imposed Pressure Quotes

#1. It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

Al Yankovic

#2. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

Kristoffer Polaha

#4. The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

John Clayton

#5. People are used to being coddled.

Phil McGraw

#6. Growth ought to simplify life. Right? Wrong. The more truth I assimilate, the more I am aware of what I should be and do. You know what this produces? Tension. God-imposed tension! The growing, obedient Christian will always live with this kind of pressure.

J. Grant Howard

#7. Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#8. You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.

Liz Kendall

#9. The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children.

Jane Green

#10. The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

Tom Scholz

#11. I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.

Barbara Mandrell

#12. The pressure to be quintessentially black in every moment, whether it comes from the outside world or is self-imposed, keeps black people from being our authentic selves.

Justin Simien

#13. Never associate with those who share your defects - they will reinforce everything that holds you back.

Anonymous

#14. Struggle is in my heart all week. My own moral conflict never ceases. Knowing I cannot and must not simply submit to the standards imposed on me, and merely conform as "they" would like. This I am convinced is wrong - but the pressure never ceases.

Thomas Merton