Andrei Sakharov Quotes

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.

My parents didn't allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate.

I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.

I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.

No matter how much you urge them to relax and how much you mean it, your child probably grapples with highly stressful environments away from home, whether it's where they go to school, the teams they play on, or the peers in their social circle. Most teenagers I know long for empathy from their parents about their struggle.

Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.

External pressure I never worried about.

If you try too hard to fit in you become something you are not.

Since I had been little, everybody wanted me to get married.

You'd go back to school and your friends would say, 'What you get for Christmas?' You got to make up a lie. 'I got this, this and this.' It's all part of growing up and everyone has a different story. It made me who I am today.

But for me it's loads of pressure. Like, my mum is a strong independent woman, but obviously she relies on me a little bit. My little brother has his own job but he relies on me.

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.