Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.
I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.
When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.
It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.
I do really well under pressure.
Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.
Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus. . . it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.
The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.
If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.
Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a fundamental shift away from dirty fossil fuels that spew carbon pollution. To make that happen, we need to put pressure on our leaders to take the bold actions necessary to move us off dirty sources of energy.
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.