Quotes About Pressure

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail–none of which is easy.

She's one of these beautiful women who's just a nobody and a nothing, and when they make it big, they always fall apart. Money can't do anything for them. Fame only makes things worse.

The notion that accurate statements made by a woman scientist are first to be regarded as likely outpourings of feminism, and only under the strong pressure of irrefutable demonstration as science is Watson's own contribution.

The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.

Oscar did not know what he was supposed to be feeling right now, what all the adults behind him would be expecting him to feel. He did not even know what he was, in fact, feeling. Except, whatever it was, it was a lot. Too much. More than bodies could hold.

When girls set their sights on a career, they have to work it out of their systems. Otherwise the kitchen sink gets to be a kind of sacrificial altar.

Email is just the most obvious manifestation of a much bigger issue: the 24/7 work culture and its associated feelings of responsibility and guilt.

Yo también caí en la trampa de la mujer total, orgullosa de ser por fin capaz de conciliarlo todo, la subsistencia, un hijo y tres cursos de lengua francesa, guardiana del hogar y dispensadora del saber, superwoman, no solo intelectualmente hablando, en resumidas cuentas, armónica. Vía libre al lirismo cuando lo demás, la reflexión en particular, ha desaparecido.

Organization, the watchword of women everywhere, magazines overflowing with advice, save time, do this, that and the other... but it's really a method of sticking yourself with the most work possible in the least amount of time without pain or suffering because that would bother those around you.

Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché.

Obsession : « Qu'est-ce qu'on va penser de nous ? » (les voisins, les clients, tout le monde).

Angoisse pour le dîner à l'Élysée, lundi, avec Charles et Diana.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

As a professional athlete, I've been booed by 18,000 people.

In professional football you have to live day-to-day.

You have to remember that professional football is a job, too, and some people have to get results on the pitch to pay to live.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.