Quotes About Motivation

I've always said that you're obviously doing something right if you have got pressure on you.

Pressure is self-inflicted.

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

When my team is playing, I pretend my father is in the grandstand and think, 'would he be enjoying watching this team?' And that's always been at the root of everything I have done.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.

I'm usually a pretty intense person. Give me an inch, and I'm going to go.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

I'm pretty good about getting some exercise every day - well, most days. The secret for me was to put the elliptical in front of the TV.

I'm OK with having a really good football player with a chip on his shoulder because he's going to come to prove to not only the people that didn't draft him, but himself, that I'm a pretty good football player.

I just feel people can see, when I'm 100 percent, I am running hard. I can do pretty good.