Top 100 Quotes About Pressure
#1. There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'
James Mercer
#2. I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.
Kim Cattrall
#3. I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though.
(on Chelsea)
Frank Lampard
#4. I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.
Halle Berry
#5. Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#6. We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.
Bobby Bonilla
#7. I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.
Sue Enquist
#8. The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.
Jon Appleton
#9. I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#10. I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.
Will Ferrell
#11. When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.
Drake
#12. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.
H.M. Ward
#13. Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure - especially during the years of adolescence - is an almost irresistible force.
Billy Graham
#15. The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.
Max Tundra
#16. 'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.
Richard V. Allen
#17. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy Keller
#18. I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
Hillary Clinton
#19. Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.
Aiden Shaw
#20. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.
Joss Sheldon
#21. I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
Samuel R. Delany
#22. The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.
Steve Waugh
#23. When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.
Steve Breen
#24. My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Hermann Maier
#25. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
Ray Bradbury
#26. It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.
Yani Tseng
#27. I was at the bottom of the sea, the pressure dense, crushing, inexorable. Dead silence strained against my eardrums. The darkness was without reprieve. No mental adjustment could make it less absolute. It was impenetrable - black painted over black painted over black.
Haruki Murakami
#28. I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.
Lindy West
#29. To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise
Haim Ginott
#30. You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#31. I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.
Melissa Joan Hart
#32. Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.
Mia Wasikowska
#33. The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.
Elliott Abrams
#34. There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.
Neal H. Moritz
#35. The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.
Stephenie Meyer
#36. I clutched at my chest with both hands in a pathetic attempt to ease the discomfort. Or maybe I was just trying to prevent myself from bleeding out from the wounds his words had caused because any good doctor knew they needed pressure to stanch the flow
Max Monroe
#37. I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.
Burning Spear
#38. And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.
LaVell Edwards
#39. Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.
Frank K. Sonnenberg
#40. Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.
Peter Benenson
#41. Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.
August Krogh
#42. We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
Helen Thomas
#43. Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
#44. As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
David Gower
#45. If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!
Donald Trump
#46. The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.
Desmond Tutu
#47. I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much ... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
Imtiaz Ali
#48. There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
Frank Bruno
#49. We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.
Matt Stone
#50. There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
Tori Amos
#51. I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
Herman Wouk
#52. In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included ... all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata
Gichin Funakoshi
#53. A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym ... so I took his advice.
Warren G
#54. Because of pressure from society, many a man has married a woman with whom he isn't compatible; she likes fairy tales, whereas he likes hairy males.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#55. If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.
Marv Levy
#56. That was undeniable. But what was also undeniable on this pressure-filled afternoon was Nishikori's poise and grit.
Anonymous
#57. There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.
Peter Abrahams
#58. The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.
Michael Strahan
#59. If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
Mark Zuckerberg
#60. I'm your fucking mate. This?" I cupped her pussy as I slid my fingers out of her, making her moan and shiver from the pressure of my palm against her swollen and sensitive clit. "This is mine now.
Ellis Leigh
#61. A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there's a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn't affect the second half of your season at all.
Frank Thomas
#62. I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.
Iwan Rheon
#63. Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
#64. When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
Matt Chandler
#66. It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.
Pierre Niney
#67. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.
Sol Luckman
#68. As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.
Daniela Hantuchova
#69. There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.
Liang Chow
#70. I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.
Tony McCoy
#71. I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.
Frank Lampard
#72. While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
Jimmy Wales
#73. Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
Bill Shankly
#75. There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and then, that's fine. I still see those girls, but I pretend they're paintings. Or advertisements. But that was only later.
Cees Nooteboom
#76. He showed his daughter how to use cushions to vary his position and relieve the monotony of pressure that corrupts the flesh, but he made her leave the room for all those tasks which would normally fall to the lot of a woman, and which show the greatest love.
Louis De Bernieres
#77. In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.
Shawn Levy
#78. Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.
J.B. Priestley
#79. There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.
John Hagel III
#80. ... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.
R. C. Sherriff
#81. The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#82. My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.'
Tom Colicchio
#83. You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.
John Wells
#84. Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.
Paul Fussell
#85. Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.
Christofer Drew
#86. There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
Joel Edgerton
#87. I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.
Scott Adkins
#88. When under attack, our heart can take a similarly sudden and unconscious turn. When faced with pressure and strong opinions, we often stop worrying about the goal of adding to the pool of meaning and start looking for ways to win, punish, or keep the peace.
Kerry Patterson
#89. There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.
Lyoto Machida
#90. The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
Bill Vaughan
#91. Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
Phil Klay
#92. The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.
Joey Jordison
#93. What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
Dennis Moore
#94. I was really putting a lot of pressure on this beer prop; it was going to distract me enough so that I didn't run around screaming like a lunatic on fire.
Jessica Fortunato
#95. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.
Bryant McGill
#96. I also worry about the incessant drumbeat of self-objectification: the pressure on young women to reduce their worth to their bodies and to see those bodies as a collection of parts that exist for others' pleasure; to continuously monitor their appearance; to perform rather than to feel sensuality.
Peggy Orenstein
#97. Her arms crept around his neck and she sunk her hand into the wavy hair at his nape. He was stealing her senses. She needed to stop this ... in just a minute. He was such a good kisser, just the right amount of pressure and passion. She sighed again and moved her hands to his shoulders pushing back.
Tamara Hoffa
#98. In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
#99. Overall employment pressure is also fading because China's working-age population peaked in 2011 and the fall is expected to accelerate, due largely to the decades-old one-child policy.
Anonymous
#100. After finishing my drink I feel a pressure in my lower regions, and I realize I have to piss. Since the Dead don't drink, urination is a rare event. I hope I can remember how to do it.
Isaac Marion
