I put myself under immense pressure.
I felt pressured by continuous touring.
I don't put myself under pressure.
I put the most pressure on myself.
I don't feel pressure going into games.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
In those days there was not so much pressure on us.
To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.
Val had a horrific image of Lisa peering through a magnifying glass like a grotesquely teenybopper version of Nancy Drew — in jeggings.
She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting now,
I don't really get nervous in front of people. I kind of walk into every situation like I'm walking in to meet my peers, and they either like me or not.
Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.
Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.
You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.
