Quotes About Pressure

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

I enjoy being pushed to the limit. Sometimes you feel like you are about to break mentally, but that's what I enjoy.

After the success of Stephen's book, a whole new crowd of people became very interested in him, and the family was just pushed into a corner.

I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do. For about six months, I did this job in recruitment and I was just so awful at it. I jumped before I was pushed.

I was pushed into trying Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig... and I absolutely hated it. It affected me deeply.

My parents never really pushed me, but I was so hard on myself. I would say I had some perfectionist quality, to a fault.

I'd like to see a show about what happens to young sports stars who've been pushed too hard by their parents or coaches.

That's what I'm always searching for - finding the balance between not caring so much to where I put all this pressure on myself. But still caring enough to where it pushes me to work exactly how I've been working so far.

What's demanded from us black creatives is both a blessing and a curse, because it pushes you to be your absolute best. You cannot be anything less.

I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.

It's hard to always listen to your dad when you get older. You want to move on, but he has the knowledge. I think he did just the right amount of pushing me but also letting me do my thing, and just making sure that I always enjoyed the game, and I'm not feeling pressured.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.

I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.

If you keep on pushing someone, eventually you push them too far.

Sometimes you can win by persevering, pushing and pressuring your competition.

I didn't want to be one of these pushy daddies.

I always like to put myself under pressure to improve more.

We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.