Quotes About Pressure

Most bowlers want to control the ball. That effort creates the tension that makes their swings more erratic.

Difficulty relaxing    Insomnia    Impatience    Taking on too much responsibility      Recent major life change (marriage, divorce, birth of child, death of close relative, purchase of home, new job, loss of job, etc.)    Irritability    Tension headaches    Sense of isolation from others    Difficulty delegating  

Bullets are incompatible with pressurised environments and complex machinery.

No sooner had he finished with a case than another two or three appeared in its place. What was the name of that creature? The Hydra, was it? That was what he was fighting. Every time he cut off a head, more popped into his in-tray. Coming back from a holiday was a nightmare. And now they were giving him rocks to push up hills as well.

I'm caught, he thought, between a cushion and a soft place

when the shit was heading fanwards.

Sometimes it sucks, being good, because if you make a mistake then everybody makes a mistake and if something goes wrong it's your fault, it falls on your shoulders.

When we started shooting New Jack City in April of 1990, I wasn't nervous anymore; I was fucking scared. Chris Rock was, too. We had a lot of heavy, dramatic scenes to pull off and we were both feeling the pressure.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

No different from others of my age am I for I feel the pressures of the age in which I live: that of attraction, wealth and popularity.

Oh, if only I knew back when it begin what was going to happen…perhaps the pressure of knowing would have been too much to bear.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

We only have one chance, even if the entire world rests on us.

We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame and crush them.

We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

deflated, revealing the systolic blood

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic...

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

wasn't allowed to claim the thing I felt and I didn't feel the thing I was supposed to claim.

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened.