Quotes About Pressure

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.

We know there has been a history of needing to be closeted to succeed and be famous, especially in acting.

There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

This is Real Madrid, and I understand there is great pressure for new signings to succeed here.

Not every young player is going to succeed at Barca.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

I don't think golf has ever been any pressure as far as having to succeed.

Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

My parents didn't want me to go into show business. They were afraid of what would happen if I didn't succeed. They wanted me to get married and have babies. I never saw marriage and family in my life.

Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates

The society is interested only in fitting every individual into its framework and maintaining its continuity.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

We did not join this government to establish a Palestinian state, but to stop this terrible idea - our position is clear to the prime minister and we believe that it is his position as well. We are reminding him that there are domestic coalition agreements that take priority over international pressure. We are opposed to the two-state solution. We believe it is not a solution – it is the start of a problem and it makes existing problems worse.

Mr. Dragonbreath's boss had brought in three motivational speakers in the last month to talk to all the employees at the antacid bottling plant, and Danny was suffering the fallout.

I hate prophesies! All they're good for is an extra club to beat yourself up with after the fact.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Think of this: Hundreds of people today are doing things that not a single one of the them would have dared to do at the beginning of the Seventies. We are now living in a truly new and different situation. This is not because the government has become more tolerant; it simply had to get used to the new situation. It has had to yield to continuing pressure from below, which means pressure from all those apparently suicidal or exhibitionistic civic acts.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.