Quotes About Pressure

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

We're not born to be selfish. And the economics of living in community make it clear that short-term hustle rarely benefits anyone. But when you're flailing and looking for something (anything) to stand on, there's pressure to choose the selfish path. To a drowning man, everyone else is a stepping-stone to safety.

This is what tension feels like. The tension of being left behind.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?

Earthquake report: Call the paramedics. A girl in fifth grade is about to explode.

do whatever it was they expected her to do because they were always expecting her to do something more or be something more until it didn't feel like there was enough of her left to go around.

Me ha hablado de la presión social, lo que por lo visto quiere decir dejar que los demás te dirijan la vida.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the Indians, and I'm probably the only actual Indian ever to play for a team with such a mascot. This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN. Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much.

Jeez, it was a lot of pressure to put on a kid. I was carrying the burden of my race, you know? I was going to get a bad back from it.

I wanted to live up to expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And

Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.

I'm so overwhelmed." – Nick "Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely hanging on by our fingernails." – Caleb

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

There's a huge pressure as a judge. It was difficult. I certainly didn't enjoy that factor, because it's a big responsibility to have a million dollars in your hand to change somebody's life.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.