Top 100 Quotes About Under Pressure
#1. 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
#2. We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
Thurgood Marshall
#3. Confidence, even when under pressure, has a way of turning an impossible situation into just another challenge to be met.
David Amerland
#4. I do my best work under pressure, so I'll nick an artery, and my husband isn't allowed to stanch the bleeding till I've banged out a chapter.
Zadie Smith
#5. I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.
David Lagercrantz
#6. Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
Alex Ferguson
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.
Tony Parker
#17. Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.
Dolly Parton
#18. I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
Beth Ditto
#20. 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
#21. When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#22. No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure.
Bryant McGill
#25. A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure
Proverb
#26. Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#27. Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
Won't fold under pressure ... grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.
Extra P
#28. Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.
Al Franken
#29. Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
#30. From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.
Isabel Allende
#31. Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name
T. B. Joshua
#33. Under pressure, a team will consciously or unconsciously begin to be more conservative in what they take on. They will begin rating things as a bit larger or a bit harder than they used to. This will give the impression that they're going faster, but they are not.
Anonymous
#34. The only true measure of courage is perseverance under pressure.
K.H. LeMoyne
#35. It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey.
John Tavares
#36. Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.
Bryant McGill
#37. You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.
Joyce Meyer
#38. Under pressure, you can win with your mind.
Tiger Woods
#39. I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
Cameron Diaz
#40. I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
Olivia Williams
#41. Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.
Pierre Mornell
#42. Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.
Sarah Churchwell
#43. She had seen those eyes dark with brooding anger and cold as ice, she'd seen his gaze veiled like a spiderweb and shattering like a gate under pressure. But she'd never seen them as they were now. Full of wondering joy and disbelief, and an almost frightened awe.
L.J.Smith
#44. I don't put myself under pressure.
Usain Bolt
#45. Maybe it's because spiritual growth and vibrant faith in God don't happen in isolation, but under pressure.
Lynn Austin
#46. My parents think I'm better under pressure.
Tori Amos
#48. I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure ... and I don't really have those qualities!
Jaime Murray
#49. I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
John Bevere
#50. Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.
Benny Bellamacina
#51. He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words Keep Calm and Carry On.
Natasha Solomons
#52. Most of us are responsible most of the time, or we would not have come this far, it is remembering to not tell the victim story when we are under pressure that makes you a leader.
Malti Bhojwani
#53. What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that's what I want.
Michelle Obama
#54. I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Aisha Tyler
#55. I love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of nine but my sister told me the bit u should never do. all in all, i loved this book and any jacqueline wilson fans over 10 i would recommend it to!
Jacqueline Wilson
#57. Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
Bill Bonner
#58. You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior
especially under pressure.
Brian Tracy
#59. In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.
Salman Khan
#60. The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.
Travis Bradberry
#61. A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.
Virginia Foxx
#62. Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.
Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.
Sophie Kinsella
#63. I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
Peter Landesman
#64. I'd have to kill Dimitri for real this time and lose any chance I might have to bring back my prince. Damn. It's a good thing I work well under pressure.
Richelle Mead
#65. Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.
Seth Klarman
#66. As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
J. C. Watts
#67. It was painful to consider that the nation which could produce the world's greatest battleships was unable under pressure to produce a single satisfactory torpedo boat.
Tameichi Hara
#68. You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
Denis Johnson
#69. You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
Roger Ailes
#70. I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,
John Kennedy Toole
#71. Your job is obviously very pressured."
"I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since ...
Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.
Sophie Kinsella
#72. GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.
Lynn Hunt
#73. I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#74. Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.
Adriano Bulla
#75. Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
George Will
#76. Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impression he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't.
Victoria Schwab
#77. Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
Anthony Holden
#78. It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessita, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?
Hilary Mantel
#79. Trust is developed under pressure and over time; just as with God by us."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#80. Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.
Travis Bradberry
#81. No matter how much I may love - scratch that, loved, past tense - Josh, I was no dummy. Everyone knows the Y chromosome carries with it the instinctive urge to lie under pressure.
Which, incidentally, was what Josh was going to be under when I found him. Serious pressure.
On his larynx.
Gemma Halliday
#82. Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#83. True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Robert McKee
#84. When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.
Lei Jun
#85. I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.
Bassem Youssef
#86. When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.
Robert Spencer
#87. As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#88. I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.
Wesley Snipes
#89. I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#90. I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal
#91. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.
Edward T. Welch
#92. Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds.
T.D. Jakes
#93. When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
#94. I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
Kevin Costner
#95. We discover our character through decisions under pressure.
Dan Millman
#96. Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.
Rebecca Wells
#97. However, recall that every human lives under pressure. Every human feels various kinds of stress. Then things happen. Badim
Kim Stanley Robinson
#98. I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.
Terry Pratchett
#99. He had always known he would go out this way: on fire. He had always known that rage was flammable, dangerous to store under pressure, where he had kept it his whole life.
Joe Hill
#100. I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea.
Mark Kirk
