Quotes About Pressure

It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you dont play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".