Quotes About Pressure

I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul

I'm not so much interested in creating literature as I am in trying to convey the pressure of what I've witnessed or experienced. Writing and rewriting until one achieves a literary form, a strict form, just bleeds the life from a experience-no blood left is it isn't raw. How do we talk, how do we think not in novellas or paragraphs but in associations, in sometimes disjointed currents.

cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek. At

New York just expects so much from a girl—acts like it can't stand even the idea of a wasted talent or opportunity. . . . Rome says: enjoy me. London: survive me. New York: gimme all you got. What a thrilling proposition! The chance to be "all that you might be." Such a thrill—until it becomes a burden.

Still starving themselves, still reading women's magazines that explicitly hate women, still cutting themselves with little knives in places they think can't be seen, still faking their orgasms with men they dislike, still lying to everybody about everything.

Faced with the same reality, we in the West tend to opt for a stiff drink instead. But people will insist upon shooting us sideways glances and saying things like, "It's two o'clock in the afternoon!" and so we put down our glasses and sigh.

It's a shadow life and after a while it gets to you. Nannies, assistants, agents, secretaries, mothers---women are used to it. Men have a lower tolerance.

she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...

The others forgot the work and the weather watching them throw. It was art. A thousand dollars a throw in Madison Square Garden wouldn't have gotten any more breathless suspense. It would have just been more people holding in.

Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great. It feels like you've already accomplished something. It's already predetermined that you're going to do well.

Every time I've played in the postseason, it's another huge accomplishment that I want to take full advantage of and go out there and play my best for the team.

I'm accustomed to pressure. It's what we, as players, live. If you don't want pressure, then football is not for you.

Those of us who play in big teams are already accustomed to the pressure of the crowd.

Football is so intense you don't have time to sit back and look at what you have achieved.

If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.

There's this kind of pressure to be creative or busy most of the time, with lots of activities and progress, and I'm trying to run from that.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

You always need time to adapt to a new manager. But in football if you don't get a result, you are under pressure.

The success of 'Humsafar' comes with an added responsibility that whatever I do next has to be as good if not better, and I also don't want to miss out on my son's growing up years.

There is no added pressure to play a Swede.

I'm not worried about any added pressure. I'm just worried about winning.

People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.

I think sometimes adding pressure can be good.

Life in the NFL is an adjustment.