Overwhelming Pressure Quotes

I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens.

He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.

No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly.

The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.

Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough

The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.