Bryan Konietzko Quotes

Pressure makes me produce. Kills most guys. Mortifies 'em.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

I didn't have stage parents and sometimes I've envied people who did because I felt like, I guess, I'm compulsively worried I'm not accomplishing enough.

Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

The pressure of success is suffocating.

Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.

Any fight I feel pressure, just the same as the last one, the next one will be just as important.

I get nervous before every single game, but I think it's a good sign. It means I care and want it to go as well as it possibly can.

I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

It has gotten worse as I'm becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there's a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.