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Quotes About Pressure

The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.
~ Dan Jenkins
Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.
~ Alison Wright
What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
I think everyone expects if you're in the lead, or if you're a favourite to win, you will win, and if you don't, then you're in a slump. It's not the case.
~ Jason Day
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.
~ Mia Wasikowska
I'm a kid who grew up in a small town and started acting when he was seven for no reason and got lucky. Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. I feel like some people, especially child stars, act out because they don't know how to handle the pressure.
~ Gaten Matarazzo
I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.
~ Alexa Bliss
You can play for a smaller club, make a mistake, and no one will really highlight it, but when you play for a big club, whatever you do is going to be in the papers.
~ Wojciech Szczesny
Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.
~ Nick Rahall
It is very tough in England. Every away game is hard, of course. And normally, if you're a big club like Chelsea, you're supposed to win games at home against smaller clubs. But in England, that's not the case. We must play well every game.
~ Thibaut Courtois
I definitely feel the pressure to lose weight and be smaller than I am.
~ Emily Atack
Some days, I feel like being known as a smart players, sometimes clutch.
~ Robert Horry
Dustin Rhodes is very mature in this business and he is a very smart man and he came up in a rough way and let me put it to you this way; when you are Dusty Rhodes' kid it is a horrible shadow to step in to, number two you've already got heat because your Dad is the booker and people think you are getting a free ride.
~ Arn Anderson
I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
~ Daniel Cormier
I feel like you're able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn't a smash.
~ Finneas
I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.
~ S. Sreesanth
If I spend time visualising smashing someone, it's good to a certain extent. But when I overdid it, it put me under pressure.
~ Vijay Shankar
In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.
~ Steve Carell
A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.
~ Maxwell
People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.
~ Lee Westwood
I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
~ Walter Payton
There's a different expectation, not just on mothers but on women. We're expected to do it all, to have it all, and look good through the process and have a smile on our face, and that's not always the case.
~ Catherine Reitman
OK, I don't love the red carpet... You arrive and all the photographers are shouting at you 'Smile!' I'm like: what, you want me to lift my leg and twirl? No.
~ Stacy Martin
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
~ Naomie Harris