Quotes About Pressure

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

I can't take his genius any more.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Character is who you are under pressure, not who you are when everything's fine.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by.

My mom always complains about my lack of a boyfriend. Well, next time she asks, I'm going to tell her I'm dating two different guys...Mr. Duracell and Mr. Energizer.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it

I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.

Remember, time is the most precious commodity we have, and under the stresses and pressures of everyday contemporary life, we often trade it for less than its real value. Everything we do is time-consuming, but very few things are time-repaying.

How could I get up there in public and act like I'm some representative of the class? I can't even go to college like the rest of them. I don't even know where I'm going to live. That's not right. That's not who the valedictorian is.

Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz

ya no puedo pensar en lo que quiero, y la fatiga se me instala en la espalda y en la nuca, como un parche poroso.

orgullo es para cuando se tienen veinte o treinta años. Salir adelante con mis hijos era una obligación, el único escape para que la sociedad no se encarara conmigo y me dedicara la mirada inexorable que se reserva a los padres desalmados. No cabía otra solución y salí adelante. Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz.