Mark Thomas Quotes

I only really work when I want to.

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

The biggest pressure is what I put on myself.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

It's honestly just pressure that I put on myself when I'm working. It's just how I operate.

I put pressure on myself.

I've had a lot of bosses that I didn't agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can't let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I'm the one that's yelling at myself. I've worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been.

If people want to put the pressure on me that fine but I don't put pressure on myself - that is where pressure comes from.

I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.

I put enough pressure on myself.

I always think I put more pressure on myself than I feel from anywhere else.

The only pressure, I think, is the pressure I put on myself.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.

I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.