Quotes About Pressure

It's true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

I think the culture of the red carpet is too much like a modern-day coliseum. If you're being photographed all the time, and you don't like having a bad photograph taken, and if you're super, super thin, chances are you're never going to look fat in a picture.

I think that's just part of what people do and part of being a female in the media. One day it's, 'Doesn't she look thin,' then the next day, 'She's put on weight.'

I wouldn't want to go into mainstream, Downing Street politics, though - it's just too cut-throat. I've got quite thin skin.

Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can dance, can fight, ideally can act, has to be single all her life and most importantly, needs to be PG18 bracket.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.

A lot of things happen in a difficult way inside Ferrari in terms of pressure.

I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

You still just got to play your game. No matter where you're at, you've got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that's when you can make some big numbers at the majors.

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.

People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

Danny Elfman, the composer, tells me the only time he thinks I'm happy is when I'm on the scoring stage, and I see the pressure's on him and it's a little off me.

Anyone who thinks 'Modern Times' has got a big message is just putting it there himself. Charlie knew that the pressures of modern life and factory life would be good for a lot of laughs, and that's why he did the film - not because he wanted to diagnose the industrial revolution.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

You learn a lot from your first Olympic Games experience. Everyone thinks they're prepared, but you never are.

Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.