Quotes About Pressure

Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

When it comes to having children or not having children, I don't think we realise how many women have to deal with things quietly.

I certainly know women who had children, quit their jobs, and still have full-time nannies. That's who these women are: Even to the detriment of their own relationship with their kids, they want to appear perfect Martha Stewart moms.

There have been times when I didn't quite make my deadline.

You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child.

I'm in my own fantasy team as well, so there's quite a bit of pressure on it.

My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.

I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they've got quite a lot of the weight on their shoulders in terms of how they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to like and how they're supposed to act.

You go your whole life for one moment that boils down to a race that lasts a couple seconds.

It is one thing to drive a Formula 1 car, and it is another thing to actually race it.

Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to perform, go out and win races.

I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

I put myself under a lot of pressure when I was racing, all the time.

I stopped because I was tired of always racing.

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I feel like there's pressure from the outside - it's probably not real, but it's something I imagine.

I can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

Yaar, television has become a very exhausting medium for actors now. It's like you are racing against time in the race for TRPs, which can be very saturating.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.