Quotes About Pressure

You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

I think that being in the closet is really hard. It takes a toll on your mind. It takes a toll on you. I think it just makes every aspect of your life more difficult.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

Being the one-woman label that I am takes a toll on you; you have to do everything.

I don't think we can fully understand just how much pressure is on these fighters' shoulders once they win the UFC title. It's a grind just to get to the title fight. You're not earning a lot of money, and the sport takes a real toll on your body. And then once you get the belt, you've got an army of fighters coming for you right away.

The business has taken a toll on me.

But obviously captaincy is a long process. It takes its toll as time goes on.

I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.

For any actor, hectic shoot schedules often take a toll on the mind and body.

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

You give and you give you give when you do not want to give you give you give you give when you do not want to give.

I won't be able to think. I won't be able to work. Nothing will interfere with your work like suicide

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning.

When I'm back with my own memories I drink a glass of wine or a cup of coffee. It helps soften their pressure, but the effect fades. Then I think I should practice grace for what I've been given to remember, but whatever I do, I can't seem to forget what I want to forget. And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound. ?

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

It's commonly believed that there's less pressure on a woman to be married these days than there used to be. If that's true, if things are better now than they were before, then they once must have been very bad indeed.

The weight of darkness pressing in on us from all sides was easier to bear with his voice to listen to.

I felt like an old bone being worried by three dogs, like sooner or later one of them was going to pull too hard, and I was just going to snap in half. The Money Dog, the Fever Dog, and the Dreams Dog I called them, and I didn't know which of them I should be scared of most. They all three had teeth like alligators.

What you never read about is the millions of normal women who are struggling to hold it all together and don't own a planner because we don't exactly know what we'd write in one!

The words used to drive me into secret rages, because on the one hand I wanted desperately to live up to my own reputation for cleverness, and on the other it seemed very unfair, that that cleverness, which I had never asked for, could be turned into something with which to cut me down.

because on the one hand I wanted desperately to live up to my own reputation for cleverness, and on the other it seemed very unfair, that that cleverness, which I had never asked for, could be turned into something with which to cut me down.

Technology freed us up . . . to imprison us further. It's created the imperative to go faster, to take on more ideas, and to juggle more.

I said earlier that making decisions is a key anxiety trigger, If we drill down a bit we can see that this happens because we work to the belief there's a perfect decision out there to be made. But such a thing doesn't exist. And clutching at something that doesn't exist is enough to send anyone into a drowning panic.

The more anxious we are, the more high-functioning we will make ourselves appear, which just encourages the world to lean on us more.