Top 100 Quotes About Pressure
#1. I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.
Bill McCollum
#2. When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
Alan Hansen
#3. Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
Ma Jun
#4. The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#5. As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the conflict. There is solid evidence of his eagerness to end America's military role in that country's civil war.
Robert Dallek
#6. I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.
Tyler Thornburg
#7. They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'
George MacDonald
#8. The more prepared you are, the less pressure you feel.
Orrin Woodward
#9. Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.
Deborah Meier
#10. I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.
Bill Engvall
#11. It's very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you're writing the business plan that there's a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
Jeff Bezos
#12. Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam.
Jay Woodman
#13. Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.
Bridgit Mendler
#14. Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
Marcus Buckingham
#15. Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'
Sheldon Richman
#16. our "gathering" - or what people used to call "church" - is an aspect of what we do, but not the only thing. The gathering is where we . . . gather. That's it. It's a place that anyone can come to and not feel any pressure at any level.
Hugh Halter
#18. You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself ... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.
Maurice Jones-Drew
#19. they do not get a price they like at one booth, they just move down the row. This constant downward pressure
Tansy E. Hoskins
#20. I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.
Kathleen Hanna
#21. I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.
Michael Douglas
#22. All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#23. Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
Al Franken
#24. Love is louder then the pressure to be perfect.
Demi Lovato
#25. People are the least creative when fighting the clock ... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.
Teresa Amabile
#26. Acting like a man means developing a non-anxious presence that sees the big picture, remains calm in a crisis, and won't cave in under pressure. Godly men respond; they don't react.
James MacDonald
#27. ALL ANIMALS ARE UNDER STRINGENT SELECTION PRESSURE TO BE AS STUPID AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH. - PETE RICHERSON AND ROBERT BOYD
Peter Watts
#28. Jeez, it was a lot of pressure to put on a kid. I was carrying the burden of my race, you know? I was going to get a bad back from it.
Sherman Alexie
#29. Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#30. Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.
Mark Oliver Everett
#31. I won't pressure you, Ari, but I'm not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.
Siobhan Davis
#32. Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression.
Deyth Banger
#33. Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
Damian Marley
#35. In a sportsperson's life, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it.
Mary Kom
#36. Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?
Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?
Hayley Williams
#37. So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.
Tupac Shakur
#38. At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.
Mats Sundin
#39. I'm quite honored by it. They [people] tell me that , 'If it hadn't of been for you, I wouldn't have played drums.' Hey, don't blame me, I was just up there doing my stuff. So no, I never take it as any real pressure.
Ringo Starr
#40. The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
Carey Mulligan
#41. Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.
Morris Dees
#42. Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its members to experiment with drugs, to engage in murderous gang fights, to steal autos, and to violate the seventh commandment.
Billy Graham
#43. Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
Anne Hollander
#44. Professor Winthrop delivered an influential lecture at Harvard proposing the earthquake might have been caused by heat and pressure below the surface of the earth. With God's help, of course, but God comes off as an engineer instead of a hothead vigilante.)
Sarah Vowell
#45. Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.
Julie King
#46. hard is just soft that has given in to pressure
Hilary Gallo
#47. I feel pressure as a fan. I don't really feel pressure from the fans, if that makes sense. I worked on other movies, like the X-Men movies, that have big fan followings. And if you start to get lost in those voices, you will be completely lost. I feel the pressure of the 6-year-old me.
Simon Kinberg
#48. I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.
Bat For Lashes
#49. I always respected Neil Armstrong highly. He was probably the coolest under pressure of anyone I ever had the privilege of flying with. I never saw him flustered.
Charles Duke
#50. Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.
Jeff Zucker
#51. The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.
Sibel Kekilli
#52. Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.
Jerry Pate
#53. I think a movie is a great date idea for younger couples. It takes the pressure off, since something else is entertaining you. It's also good for couples in a very comfortable relationship.
Chris Carmack
#54. There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.
Martin Freeman
#55. Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.
David Halberstam
#56. I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
Ziggy Marley
#57. Without pressure, there would be no diamonds. Without tests and trials, you wouldn't know your own strength - or weaknesses.
Gena Showalter
#58. My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham ...
Christopher Moore
#59. I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
Deborah Cox
#60. If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.
John Robinson
#61. I dont believe in pressure. Pressure doesnt affect me at all.
Tracy McGrady
#62. Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
Charles Duhigg
#63. I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.
Tony Parker
#64. When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on 'SNL' it's just go, go, go. If you can't read the cue cards or miss your mark, you're just left to sort of screw up. So there's a lot more pressure doing a live TV show.
Megan Fox
#65. Love is louder than the pressure ti be perfact
Miley Cyrus
#66. I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.
Jose Mourinho
#67. A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
Bill Parcells
#68. I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself.
Robin McKinley
#69. It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.
Philip Pullman
#70. I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.
Jewel Staite
#71. Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.
Ismail Haniyeh
#72. I felt his pain as an extra pressure on myself. I mentally added his pain to mine, made it part of my own.
V.S. Naipaul
#73. Even in the investigations into direct production of calcium peroxide in an alkali melt with highly compressed oxygen, it was found to be necessary to bring the high-pressure gas into contact with the suspension of lime in caustic alkali melt by agitation or some other means of mixing.
Friedrich Bergius
#74. We don't have to change our lives overnight or put pressure on ourselves to be happy right now or tomorrow. We can just let inspiration easily give us moments of relief until they are bountiful.
Elaina Marie
#75. Doctors troubleshoot the human body - they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.)
David J. Agans
#76. Just breathe. Just breathe. Just breathe.
The pressure will crack and shatter
If you just keep breathing.
Life will eventually get easier
if you keep your heart beating.
Just breathe. Just breathe. Just breathe.
Jessica Sorensen
#77. fingers clenched around the pommel of her sword. The blade trembled in her hand. Pressure swelled in her chest, her frustration bubbling within. Then she took a deep breath,
Aaron D. Hodges
#78. To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.
Harvey MacKay
#79. Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
Seth Godin
#80. I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.
Tony La Russa
#81. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Selma Blair
#82. And maybe this was what craziness was: an emergency valve to relieve the pressure of unbearable anxiety.
Jonathan Franzen
#83. Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.
Agyness Deyn
#84. The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
Aaron Klug
#85. It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
Cal Hubbard
#87. Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#88. Disconnect from society's pressure to conform. Do things your own way.
Fennel Hudson
#89. Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Derek Bok
#90. There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler
#91. I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.
Valentino Rossi
#92. I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
Tim O'Reilly
#93. As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
Yani Tseng
#94. When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
Paul Walker
#95. The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.
Paul McCartney
#96. Group pressure is also a fascinating process to watch. Given enough arguments, time, and stress, even the most resolute and determined man can be made fearful enough to completely reverse his ideals to conform with everyone else.
Trish Mercer
#97. I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy.
Hannah Tointon
#98. What worried me almost as much as letting myself down if I gained it all back, was letting everyone else down. Being a failure. The pressure, the foreignness of it all caused the welling up of a deep, deep insecurity.
Andie Mitchell
#99. I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.
Mary Schapiro
#100. Keep yourself healthy, my butt. Next you'll be flipping them all nasty one-handed gestures and telling me its an AMA approved method of controlling your blood pressure.
Susan Andersen
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