Quotes About Pressure

At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

I never wanted to become an actress to avoid the pressures of looking good all the time.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

What aren't the pressures of being an actress? Don't get me wrong, I love my job. It has been my one and only dream but it's scary. There's a certain lifestyle and image one has to live up to or face the criticism which is quite harsh and cruel.

The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many young gay and trans people of color.

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.

Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.