Pressure Quotes
-
1971-79 was when I shared the stage with my father. We did more than 500 plays together. He was a hard worker, and learning from him was more than a delight. The way he faced challenges and political pressure was a treat to watch.
-
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
-
I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
-
This is like a game we have to win. The pressure has risen, which I think is not a bad thing.
-
We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.
-
The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.
-
I had so much pressure from the fans. No one knew what was going on. I had to keep my mouth shut. I think that builds the excitement anyway, so I’m glad we did it the way we did. I’m so glad that it’s out now.
-
There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?
-
When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.
-
With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.
-
You've got to want to compete with the best of the best and when the pressure's on.
-
Under pressure, men drink alcohol and invade other countries; women eat chocolate and go shopping.
-
I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.
-
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
-
Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that we wrote was "Out Of My Heart" which is the first single. As soon as we wrote that, we knew we just set the standard and every other song had to be as good if not better.
-
The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.
-
I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch my best and then put the ball in their hands. That way I can make the team by pitching my best.
-
I don't think people really understand just how much pressure there is on her. I think she is doing fine.
-
There's always going to be an element of pressure when you walk on the stage.
-
The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.
-
Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.
-
When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.
-
People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.
-
I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.
