Quotes About Pressure

The stress of it all. How the hell are we expected at the age of sixteen (and seventeen, in your case) to decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives? Right now all I want to do is get out of school, not start planning to get into another one. You're lucky you've always known what you want to do.

I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality, as if the play yard, with its black asphalt floor and its white base lines, were my entire world now, as if all the previous years of my life had led me somehow to this one ball game, and all the future years of my life would depend upon its outcome. I stood there for a moment, holding the glasses in my hand and feeling frightened. Then I took a deep breath, and the feeling passed. It's only a ball game, I told myself. What's a ball game?

I told her of a letter Camille Pissarro once wrote to his son about Monet's dealers, who were insisting he exhibit only one kind of painting, the one that had become very popular with collectors. The collectors only wanted Sheaves. Pissarro wrote that he couldn't understand how Monet could subject himself to the demand that he repeat himself. He called it a terrible consequence of success.

I hated what I had drawn in that sketchbook. I should not have done it. Why had he asked me to do it? I hated the drawings. They were lies, stagnant creations done to someone else's demand, and I despised them.

The men I've been with have this idea to make me over. I feel like a rock in some boy's polishing kit. I go in dull, scratched up, and then rumble rumble whirr, I'm supposed to come out precious and sparkling again. Does it work? They seem to think so. How do you feel? I asked. A little smaller. (1998: 148- 149)

I'm lucky in that the media is much more freelancey. So I didn't have that pressure that lots of people have if you jump off the ladder, then you get left behind.

I don't feel like a first lady.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

My parents, or Asian parents in general, they're like, 'You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker' - all that's laid out. As a kid that's what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially.

Whether it comes to media pressure or anything, I've become a bit laid back and actually not bothered.

For me, I just love running in the big moments. That's always been the way. That is what you work so hard for. You don't work hard to run fast in practice or to run fast at small meets.

With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

In high school, you can just go out there and play. In the NFL it was so much more mental.

You use up a lot of mental energy in the Champions League.

My mental health is something that I've been focusing on my whole entire football career. It's a normal thing.

Mental health resources are under huge pressure and there are a lot of people who are not necessarily getting the support they need in time.

Sometimes it feels like our mental health is directly linked to our performance on the pitch, and while I understand that it is of course a factor - it's not the whole picture.

I can make a good consultant, I can fine-tune bowlers, give them mental toughness, talk about how to bowl under pressure, how to bowl with the old ball.

I have a mentality that is really taking off all the pressure.