Pressure Situations Quotes

#1. Handguns were in-room weapons. Under expert control in high-pressure situations the average range for a successful engagement was about eleven feet.

Lee Child

#2. The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.

Sachin Tendulkar

#3. I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#4. No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

Wayne Gretzky

#5. Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.

Tom Watson

#6. I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

Isaiah Thomas

#7. Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

Don Meyer

#8. If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action.

Charles Martin

#9. If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.

John Corey Whaley

#10. There is so little that one can do for the dead!

Selma Lagerlof

#11. All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Kevin Hart

#12. A man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue ...

Terry Pratchett

#13. They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.

Jason Dufner

#16. [In] radio, every segment of every hour is a challenge to fill in an interesting way. What I like the most about it is how challenging it is to do it well.

Scott Van Pelt

#17. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him.

Harper Lee

#18. Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn't mean you should.

Michael Nesmith

#19. We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.

Munia Khan

#20. Personally, I think I am much calmer under incredibly stressful situations, and I've learned to deal with pressure and nerves, which is key to being a performer of any caliber.

James Wolpert

#21. Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

#22. Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as well as for ad campaigns.

Wendy Starland

#23. That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.

Richard L. Evans

#25. My dad taught me never to talk to strangers," she said lightly.
"We're all strangers in the beginning."
"Then what are we in the end?"
"We'll have to see when we get there.

Lisa Mangum

#26. We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

Katherine Anne Porter

#27. All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

Carl Jung