Best 692 quotes in «pressure quotes» category

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

For me personally, I need to anticipate pressure and tuck the ball away.

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.

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.

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. And the great thing about a scramble, there's less pressure because you don't feel like every shot has to be your shot.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

I always wanted to do something that revolves around the darker side of sex, the pressure of it.

I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.

I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

I cannot accept concepts such as Gülenism or Gülenist. I was only a writer and an official preacher among people. I can have no direct influence on any person or activity. It is inconceivable that I can exert pressure on anybody.

I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.