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Quotes About Pressure

Everyone tries to get you to dance at clubs. They come up to you and say "You gotta dance! you gotta dance!" And then I dance, and they're like, "Not like that!"
~ Mike Birbiglia
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
~ Ben Stiller
As I remember it, the bases were loaded.
~ Unknown
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
~ Penn Jillette
An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.
~ Conan O'Brien
Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
~ Doug Stanhope
It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.
~ Gillian Anderson
The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.
~ Greg Giraldo
Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidneys. I'm so tired.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
~ Ivan Reitman
Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
~ Jim Bouton
Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.
~ Jimmy Hill
By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.
~ Kellan Lutz
A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"
~ Lefty Gomez
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
~ Douglas Adams
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
~ Peyton Manning
More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All can I say is that exams are damn pathetic
~ Unknown
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future
~ Thomas A. Edison
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
~ Billie Jean King
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
~ Evelyn Waugh
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
~ Marcus Aurelius
We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.
~ Nicolas Ghesquiere