Quotes About Pressure

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

I like pressure. It's that kind of thing that will actually help me perform to the best of my abilities. It will help me with training. It'll help with everything.

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.

Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.