Blame it on Peer Pressure.
I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.
We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.
Great performers welcome pressure.
If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.
It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.
There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.
Sometimes the most important word is no. It takes the pressure off.
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.
I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you can be so that they turn out well. And that requires that you be a really great, evolved, aware person in every moment. Which is pretty awesome. But it's also putting tremendous pressure on yourself--which is why women feel so guilty!
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.
Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. But in "Iron Man" it was kind of like both worlds colliding because there was a lot of improvisation, not that we improv-ed in the scenes but to discover the actual scenes themselves.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.
For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.
There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.
It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.
