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Quotes About Pressure

Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
~ Boris Becker
As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.
~ Tyler Blackburn
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent
~ Mikhail Tal
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
~ Alain Badiou
In their endeavor to score as much sex as possible, they'll tell women the opposite. Men know women feel pressure to be perfect so they 'throw them off the scent' with colorful stories to keep her focussed on pleasing him (short term). Like the one about how all his ex-girlfriends are supermodels. Or the one about his ex having sex with him ten times a day. (Clearly, a figment of his imagination.)
~ Sherry Argov
I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.
~ Sherry Stringfield
but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.
~ Sherry Thomas
every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be. But
~ Sherry Thomas
Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn't escape the expectations that came of being women.
~ Sherry Thomas
Online, we easily find "company" but are exhausted by the pressures of performance. We enjoy continual connection but rarely have each other's full attention. We can have instant audiences but flatten out what we say to each other in new reductive genres of abbreviation. We like it that the Web "knows" us, but this is only possible because we compromise our privacy, leaving electronic bread crumbs that can be easily exploited, both politically and commercially.
~ Sherry Turkle
But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is often presented as supporting student "engagement.
~ Sherry Turkle
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
~ Shirin Ebadi
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
~ Shirley Henderson
But errors are consequences: the leakage that occurs around the edges when you put pressure on a system without taking other factors into account.
~ Sidney Dekker
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
~ Sidney Poitier
I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?
~ Sidney Sheldon
You see, goalies are different from other hockey players. We never cheer against each other. Why? Only goalies truly know what it's like to be a goalie. Because you're the last player between the puck and the net, the blame always falls on you when the other team scores a goal.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
Getting called into the coach's office is like getting called into the principal's office. And I never have good enough grades to hope it's because the principal has nice news.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
~ Sigmund Freud
impunerea frumuse?ii drept condi?ie a accept?rii sociale
~ Silvia Federici
Part of the manager's job is to act as scapegoat, shielding his club's owners from blame.
~ Simon Kuper
Everyone knows im perfect. My life is perfect. My clothes are perfect. Even my family is perfect. And although its a complete lie, i've worked my butt off to keep up the appearence that i have it all. The truth, if it were to come out, would destroy my entire picture-perfect image.
~ Simone Elkeles
You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.
~ Simone Elkeles