Quotes About Pressure

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important

The society and surroundings pressures us to do what they want us to do and be what they want us to be

If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( "Blame storming")

When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.