Anita Shreve Quotes

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

I believe when things are going well, there's pressure, and when things are going bad, there's pressure. The pressure is more on the outside than inside.

You lose weeks of sleep over a bad game, and a bad game could be one missed kick. So the ones you make, you just try to build on the confidence with it, and the ones you miss, you try to get it out of your head as quickly as possible and try to make the next one.

We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.

If this world hasn't made you semi-mad, then you ain't living in it.

When it's asshole-tightening time, that's when you see what people are made of. Or at least what their asshole is made of.

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

The pressure is always there... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

Pressure is part of what we do. It's always present.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.