Dilip Shanghvi Quotes

I feel as much pressure as anyone does about their work, really. You just want to be productive; only difference is that the work is seen and judged by a few more people.

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.

I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of course, there are some days when things just don't work out as well as they do on other days, but that doesn't have anything to do with pressure.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

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

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 think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

High expectations are really intimidating.

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

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

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

Everything I did in my life was about the title, but that's too much pressure over me. When I relaxed more, even my performance became better.

When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

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.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.