Self-Imposed Stress Quotes

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.

It is very important not to try too hard because in the past I think I have done that.

Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

Every man makes his own pressure.

I put pressure on myself.

I have learned one thing in my life: If I put too much pressure on myself, then everything goes wrong.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

I really put a lot of pressure on myself.

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

It's honestly just pressure that I put on myself when I'm working. It's just how I operate.

If people want to put the pressure on me that fine but I don't put pressure on myself - that is where pressure comes from.

I put way too much pressure on myself and put too much into CrossFit. It had become who I was. That's really when I figured out I don't want my identity to be CrossFit.

I put a lot of pressure on myself.

I just think pressure is all what you put on yourself.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

I guess the main source of stress for me is the stress I put on myself.