Self-Imposed Challenges Quotes

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I've always been a guy to put pressure on myself.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.

The biggest pressure is what I put on myself.

There is no limit on life besides the one we put on ourselves.

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

Every man makes his own pressure.

I put pressure on myself.

The only pressure I experience is the pressure I put on myself. I demand a lot from myself.

I think subconsciously, I've always gone looking for pressure.

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.

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

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

I'm not so much concerned with the natural bastards as I am with the self-made ones.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

I put enough pressure on myself.

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

I put myself under immense pressure.