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Quotes About Pressure

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
~ Scott Turow
What happens when perfection isn't good enough?
~ Scott Westerfeld
You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.
~ Joe Bastianich
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
~ Karl Kraus
My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.
~ Michelle Obama
My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.
~ Peyton Manning
When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.
~ Joyce Meyer
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
~ Christina Perri
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
~ Bill Nighy
It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
~ Al Yankovic
You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
~ Albert Brooks
Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.
~ Alexis Denisof
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
~ Alice Cooper
I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.
~ Alicia Keys
The pressure is hard. You get - the world is only watching every four years, and I think lots of people feel like they have to win in that time frame.
~ Allyson Felix
The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.
~ Andre Holland
The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.
~ Andrew Bird
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
~ Angela Carter
I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
~ Angelina Jolie
while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's crazy. But that's 'okay' because you look healthier.
~ Beth Ditto