Quotes About Pressure

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

Every player goes through streaks where they're just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games, and a lot of times, it's something off the court that is bothering you, or coach might cut your minutes for some unknown reason.

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.