Quotes About Pressure

Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

We won't survive if someone loses their nerves in the current tension.

I have long ago made a final and irrevocable decision. Nothing and no one, no pressure, cither from the right or from the left, will make me abandon the positions of perestroika and new thinking. I do not intend to change my views or convictions. My choice is a final one.

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

So then the success tax comes from envy, and the shit tax comes from exploitation... The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

Parents weren't supposed to praise their children, she knew this—it would only invite disaster.

I think he just got tired of trying to be a good Korean and quit. I was never a good Korean.

No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out.

People who know I have social anxiety like to say things like: "You may not want to go out, but you should just force yourself. You'll be glad you did!" That is a lie.

And this actress, this poor skinny actress who so clearly lost weight to play the likable lead, has to say things like 'shut up you guys! I love cheesecake! If I want to eat an entire cheesecake, I will!' If you look closely, you can see this woman's ribs through the dress she's wearing--that's how skinny she is, this cheesecake-loving cow.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.

The kick in the teeth with fame is, when you don't have it, you beat yourself up for it because you don't have it, but when you have it, you are miserable and kill yourself for it.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.

La brecha entre nuestro verdadero poder y lo que la gente espera de nosotros es lo que genera las presiones más difíciles que debe soportar cualquier jefe de Estado».

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Successful people are obsessed with the idea that they are always late.

Being too handsome can also be a curse. Because all the girls will feel like they are not worthy of having you under their wing.

Even perfect people are taught to practice imperfections just to fit in the society. Thus, the famous saying of 'no one is perfect' still prevails.

Loneliness is the price that every leader must pay in the end.

The world is still the same, keeping the atmospheric pressure aside, but it's the minds that are busy wandering around. Ruin and flee from the present moment, while seeking for the future.

This generation of ours is dead tired. Their engines are not too powerful to withstand all the pressures of life.