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Quotes About Pressure

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
~ Ben Affleck
I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'
~ Lee Unkrich
I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.
~ Lee Unkrich
People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
~ Lee Unkrich
Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.
~ Claire Denis
I've learned what F1 is like, and it is an extremely competitive sport on and off the track.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.
~ Paul Simonon
I don't know of any other driver on the track that doesn't get hot under the collar.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Child actors don't have great track records.
~ Leslie Mann
In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
~ Victoria Pendleton
Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
~ Kirk Douglas
When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
~ Gordon Ramsay
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
~ Jackie Cooper
I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.
~ Ansel Elgort
I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
~ Harold Brodkey
Midseason trades are hard.
~ Kyle Korver
I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.
~ Sara Shepard
I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.
~ Suzanne Collins
To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
~ Karl Pilkington
Fighting at home doesn't add any pressure - they call it "home-field advantage" for good reason. I don't have to travel. I get to sleep in my own bed the night before the fight.
~ Brock Lesnar
Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
~ Chrissie Hynde
Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
~ S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.
~ Jim Abbott
Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.
~ Frank K. Sonnenberg