Quotes About Pressure

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

if we want to stop showing favoritism, we first have to be aware that we feel it. We need to be honest enough to admit the truth to ourselves. Knowing our bias immediately puts us in a better position to protect our "less favored children"; and it helps us protect our favored child, as well, from the pressure of having to maintain his position and from the inevitable hostility of his siblings.

I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down, and I just don't want that in my life.

We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.

My husband spoke eagerly of the children we would have; my parents-in-law awaited the birth of their grandchild. I had no idea of what I wanted, what I could or could not choose. I only knew that to have a child was to assume adult womanhood to the full, to prove myself, to be 'like other women.

In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

Football has no patience.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

Chris Paul, president of the NBA Players Association, can lead an entire league but can't lead his team when it really counts.

In official competitions there are mistakes you don't make or you pay for it dearly.

You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Either I want this world where there is so much stress and pressure or I want to live in a jungle where there is peace of mind, without any network or social media.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

See, every thing in show business is a lie. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. You are in situations where you are forced to think that you are better than everybody else because of the pedestal the fans place you on. It's a lie. This is just a job, a high-profile job. You have to keep that in perspective and not get caught up in the hype.

When you are a successful footballer, you get put on a pedestal. You are the person your friends and family look up to, and they do not know how to approach you when things are going wrong, even when you just need someone to reach out to you and ask you if you are all right.

Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.

When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.