Quotes About Pressure

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

I think all of us as NBA players have expectations of ourselves that are different from expectations from external forces and sources.

Captaining South Africa was definitely not one of my goals.

I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.

To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.'

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

The U.S., together with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or retaliation every time it tried to move toward official recognition, or at least acceptance, of its claim that the Baltic states were Soviet republics.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.

What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

A squeeze occurs when people have no choice but to do something, and do it right away, regardless of the costs.

It is often with the most noble intentions that we do so, as we are pressured to "fix" things, so we often blow them up with our fear of randomness and love of smoothness.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.