Looking back upon the memories of the last 50 years. I perceive how calamities from within and aggression from without have come upon us in relentless succession, and that my life had never engaged a moment's respite from anxiety.
During her adult life, she was the de facto ruler of China.
I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to.
I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.
It's too much of a responsibility, too much stress, and to do justice to Sri in my first film as a director would be really tough. We can't separate our personal equation and become professionals on the sets. So no, I'm not directing Sri in my first film.
Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different
I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
Baseball has been the greatest things in my life, but the cameras and the media surrounding baseball have not been fun. It's unnecessary. How many times do they see me stretch? How many times do they see me walk? It is a big concern. If it affected the team in a negative way, I don't know what I would do.
Every man makes his own pressure.
The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.
No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.
Well, the only pressure is what you put yourself under.
Pressure is something you put on yourself.
Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.
I always think I put more pressure on myself than I feel from anywhere else.
I just think pressure is all what you put on yourself.
Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure.
The one thing I can tell you is that I can't stand the English press, who cause me enormous problems on a personal level.