External Pressure Quotes

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it.

I think, mostly for people on the outside, it's a lot about numbers or stats. More or more. That's how the football world is going, in that direction. But I'm not really looking into it. I'm just trying to be the best I can, to create as much as possible.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

I felt so much pressure to come out on other people's terms, you know? I should have come out.

People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.

What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist.

At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.

You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

I feel pressure as a fan. I don't really feel pressure from the fans, if that makes sense. I worked on other movies, like the X-Men movies, that have big fan followings. And if you start to get lost in those voices, you will be completely lost. I feel the pressure of the 6-year-old me.

It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

When the devil drives, needs must.

I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better.

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

I got songs; I just never release them. I don't know why. A lot of people say I need to put it out. I guess I haven't made it my focus.

You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external.

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

I realized very quickly that the public has a perfect right to tell you what they want to see.