Quotes About Pressure

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.

The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.

It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

Show business got really tainted for me.

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

Modeling is a lonely business.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch."

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.