Self-Imposed Pressure Quotes

I've never had time for friends. I've always worked too hard.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.

It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

A lot of people say, 'Do you feel a lot of pressure?' There's not that much pressure, to be honest.

I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much.

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

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.

I've always been a guy to put pressure on myself.

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

I've always been very hard on myself, it's the way that works with me.

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Oh, I am 1,000 percent too hard on myself.

I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

There's been times I've been paralyzed by guilt when I've had to work crazy hours or miss a parent-teacher interview.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.

I do tend to overdo everything.