Allison Williams Quotes

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

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

I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

I wish some days that I didn't have as much drive as I do. I'd sleep better.

I have to study, study, and study because I have to learn everything. Everyone expects me to be an expert on everything.

I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, 'I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.' It's not a comfortable life. It's not relaxed. I'm not relaxed as a person. I mean, I'm not unhappy. But... it's the opposite of being comfortable.

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

It is very important not to try too hard because in the past I think I have done that.

I try not to focus too much on the expectations there are of me.

I struggle with perfection.