Quotes About Pressure

Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's.

At the interview, they asked me what music I liked and what I thought of Britney Spears. I said she was an idiot. Then they said I'd got the job. I was absolutely terrified.

As a female, you're always terrified that if you blow it, you've blown it for your whole gender.

One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

With 'Black Sea,' I long had an idea that I wanted to do a film about people stuck on the bottom of the ocean. I thought that was a terrifying scenario.

Hit shows are very difficult to achieve. You need to have everything just right - that's what's so terrifying.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

I can only speak for myself, but growing up in the spotlight is not easy at all... but at some stage you have to accept that and realise that it comes with the territory.

Television is an intimately personal medium, especially with so many people watching on their phones or laptops. Style pressure comes with the territory.

Jose has managed at some big, big clubs, and at all of those clubs, there is pressure, it comes with the territory. But he has a wonderful way of dealing with that pressure, and when you manage these sorts of clubs, you've got to be used to that.

I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

Just as we demand that our governments address risks associated with terrorism or epidemics, we should put concerted pressure on them to act now to preserve our natural environment and curb climate change.

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

I'd be lying if I say that not scoring a Test century was a burden on me.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.