Quotes About Pressure

I was never an A student. I never really liked going to school like many of my friends. There were just too many students and too competitive. We were sort of forced into studying to go to college. It was like if we didn't go to college, society looked at us as failures. We didn't know what to do with the situation.

It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.

It's soo freaking hard studying all night for your exams when you know there is no hope of clearing the dreaded Hindi paper.

Asian parents generally tend to channel their children, especially their daughters, into studying and not sport.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

Theatres that are stuffed to the gunnels leave me feeling rather peaceful - that's when things are going right. When you're playing to 40% and trying to make the budget, it's more difficult.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

When you're dealing with a shoot day that's costing somebody $300,000; when you're responsible for making that day; when you've got a half-million-dollar stunt that you've got to make sure you cover properly. You don't want to be doing that early in your career. You want to be making your mistakes when not many people are watching.

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

I didn't want people to see me driving a new car and living in a high style and then playing poorly.

I just have to fight my style of fight, which is a lot of pressure.

I learned a lot from the Holmes fight. I learned about styles and the pressure. I'm more prepared now.

All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.

When I was in college or working, I had the luxury of writing on whatever subject. Now, I'm in the business, I have a deadline and pressures. Sometimes, I have to do things that I am not in the mood for.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

I'm a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Once you sign a contract that states that you're going to have to fight this other man for a substantial amount of money, things change psychologically.

These days, we are scrutinised by everybody. Girls in the industry put a lot of effort into it. You can't be overdressed or underdressed, your make up has to be subtle and there's a lot of brainstorming that goes into it.

I hate the term black sheep, but I just felt like I wasn't keeping up. It was a subtle pressure I put on myself.

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.