Quotes About Pressure

I'm too frightened to go on 'Celebrity Mastermind.' You really are shown up. Just you and a chair - there's no way out.

When I left home at 17, I became successful astronomically fast. But I think my parents were so frightened of me failing that they focused on that more than my success.

The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see.

I sometimes get frustrated with how important Dallas Cowboys' football is to people. It's extremely important to me, too, but football is what I do.

Everybody gets frustrated with themselves when they are not playing well because they feel like they are letting the team down.

When there's a lot of talk about a team that should or could be winning things, and it's not happening, it can become a little bit frustrating.

It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.

To have an 18-year-old coming to you demanding money before he's even played - that has got to be frustrating for a manager to deal with.

This is a frustrating sport. There are a lot of emotions involved.

It's been frustrating that people only saw me as a 'featured artist' for a while, but in terms of making an album, it's been quite a nice, unpressurised environment to write songs and pick the best ones.

Talent is not enough. It's a mental game. You have to deal with frustration when you don't play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses.

I think the only thing wrong about our profession is the frustration you go through, when you don't have work, when you are going up or down. All the time the stress is there.

When you're going through a game and you miss your first couple, you definitely put a little bit of added pressure on yourself. And there is that sense of frustration. You got to block it out and realize that the whole goal of what I'm trying to do is just get open shots.

At times, I thought of leaving filmmaking because of the pressure and frustration 'Adhugo' had put on me.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

I loved that pressure. That's what fuels you as a player. That achievement of playing for Celtic is massive. All the fans put that pressure on your head but it makes sure you go and perform.

I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

It's a ridiculous function of modern work life that we can't just be sick, we then have to beat ourselves up about being sick.

Democracy functions better when donors push politicians to win campaigns based on their defining issues instead of using financial pressure for policy changes, favors, or special access.

To pay the bills, I've liquidated my children's college fund.

Between the fundraising, being away from family, the environment of hyperpartisanship, Washington is really stressing people out.

People expect me to be funnier.

The mental business is almost impossible to handle at the apex of government