Quotes About Pressure

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins.

If practice and preparation were all it took to prevent nerves on the course, tour players would never get rattled.

A lot of clay court players want rhythm. They want the time to play from the baseline, and it's about preventing them from having that.

Replacing someone who has scored more than 30 goals in the previous season is not easy.

I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.

Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Fuel prices are really a pressure point, and they have had an impact on food and other things as well.

I don't fear Holmes, but I think he's a good fighter. He has a lot of pride. But I wouldn't be fighting him if I feared him. It's going to be a tough fight. People say with all the hoopla out there, I won't be able to handle it. I believe the pressure's on him. I'm just going to do my thing.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.

An Australian prime minister once said that his job was the second most important job in the country - behind being captain of the cricket team. It's not a job you take on lightly.

People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

It wouldn't bother me at all if I weren't Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.