Quotes About Pressure

I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

By the laws of probability, most decisions made under pressure should be flawed ones, yet psychologists have found that people routinely make correct judgments most of the time, even with limited information. One

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

What makes great rivalries is when individual or team matchups occur, something's got to be on the line, and usually that's a championship.

October baseball is what it's all about.

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.

Alan Shearer came in at a time when he was one of the only people on this planet who could have kept Newcastle up and he did a fantastic job in everything else but the odd result not going his way.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

You're never trying to have three-and-outs; I don't care what offense you're playing.

This game is not designed for the defense to have it easy, so if I am gonna favor one side, I'll favor the offense because I want the defense being put under as much stress as possible.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

You can lose a game with the kicking game faster than you can with offense and defense.

But when an offensive sputters and looks out of synch, you can bet one of the defensive linemen is responsible.

I love Kamal and Sarika because they are my parents. But nobody buys me a car because of that, and you aren't flooded with offers, either.

I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in.

I get offers where I'm either asked to play the villainous saas or the maa who just wants to get her daughters married.

It's a little daunting to know you're going to take off your clothes and 16 million people are going to see it. It's not a normal day at the office.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

My mother was very interested for me to become an IAS officer.