Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

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.

It is hard sometimes, we live in a world where results and all these things matter.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

When I was in Vojvodina, it is not possible to describe. If you play one bad ball, one little mistake, they are, 'Oh, what is that?' Then, some players, they are afraid to take responsibility. They don't feel well, you know; you don't have freedom to show yourself.

I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.

The pressure of success is suffocating.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

Auditioning is the worst.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

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

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.