Quotes About Pressure

I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.

Early in the Obama administration, our economic team faced intense pressure to go down the road of coercive capitalism.

If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

It's always strange to play a sex object; it's never a natural kind of feeling.

My objective with men at 2nd and 3rd is to get one quality pitch to drive them in. If it's not available, I'm going to go to first base. I won't make any apologies about that.

I can imagine trying something else but I really feel very comfortable at Bayern. Every year there a new challenges and new objectives and the pressure will always be there.

We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

When a high-profile celebrity sits down with you for an interview, there's no obligation for them to give you anything.

It's been a lot of responsibility to be an ambassador for U.S. wrestling and the sport. It's a tough journey. There's a lot of obligations but also a lot of opportunity.

Inter are a huge club and so always obliged to win.

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

The big problem in our society is the obsession with maximisation.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself - and I would miss the chance to seize it.

I won't name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.

I think I'm a focal point for everyone. It's obvious that all the fans are watching every move that I make, and so why wouldn't the refs?

I think there's a certain amount of pressure depending on how demanding the part is, depending on how great the material is. I feel a certain amount of pressure to rise to the occasion.

The play-offs are a great occasion to be involved in; the semi-finals were amazing. When you're in it it's special and you do enjoy it but if you are in it, you have to win it. It's a lot of pressure.

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.