Quotes About Pressure

The 'Best of British' is a positive thing that's bandied around, but also it's applied pressure to our country in terms of economic growth. I think we've always felt the rest of the world is so much more powerful in terms of being commercially viable, but we can take great pride in our level of creativity.

I perform better under pressure. If I go out there, and I'm not nervous, and I'm too relaxed, I don't like that vibe. I like big matches. I like pressure situations.

When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.

It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I'm collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.

In the stadium when you're playing, you feel the negative vibe going around for not playing the ball forward, or for not pressing.

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.

I've had partners - life partners, that didn't understand it and I felt the pressure of that and took it out on Tessa, or vice versa I'm sure it wasn't peachy to be in a relationship with me.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Sometimes you're a victim of your own success.

I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.

It is so easy to fall victim of everybody else's definition of what you should be.

I'm a victim of my own success.

We have been fed such unreal standards of beauty that we have now become victims and part of this process that one cannot break.

Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.

Every great player is more outstanding in the victory, but has more pressure in defeats.

That first victory, before you get to it, it always seems so far ahead. You're not sure whether you can make it or not. Once you do, obviously it's a relief, but it also helps you to then deal better once you are in the lead of a race.

I have improved in my mentality. I didn't know what it meant to play at Juventus when I arrived, as there is pressure and obsession for the victory.

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

All managers are under pressure. It's our life, always. It's about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me - the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.