Quotes About Pressure

It just became too much to bear... the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself.

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

I hate being famous. You have no freedom. You can't do anything.

The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal - they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

Nobody believes me, but to be honest the pressure is not something that I feel.

If, as Bayern, you lose 2-0 at Hertha, nobody believes you that you can still be satisfied with the performance.

That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.

From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen princess of the prom, to win election to student government. Thereby and only thereby, we learned, could we expect to gain admission to the right college, which in turn would get us into Harvard Medical School: life's one sure path to meaningful success and lasting happiness.

I didn't know what to do, there was a feeling of time running out and a loss of momentum, of opportunities wasted.

Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy.

Stone announced in early April that if delegates at the Republican National Convention had the nerve to switch from Trump to another candidate, "we will disclose [their] hotels and room numbers." Anderson

Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

It has been eleven days, Stephen, eleven fucking days! Eleven! The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public.

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

And maybe this was what craziness was: an emergency valve to relieve the pressure of unbearable anxiety.

Charles was at the apex of his career, coming off a Lannan Fellowship year and a front-page Times review that had anointed him as the heir of John Barth and Stanley Elkin, but he didn't know it was the apex.

It struck him that if he could have sex with this girl for one second he could face his parents confidently, and that if he could keep on having sex with this girl once every minute for as long as his parents were in town he could survive their entire visit.