Best 692 quotes in «pressure quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 pressure, because I do what I want to do. I don't feel pressure at all. I've never done any movies because I thought this was what somebody wanted me to do. I'm a bit more, for lack of a better word, selfish than that. But like I say in the movie, you do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do.

I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

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

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.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.

I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I'm not too worried.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.

I don't put myself under pressure.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

I do really well under pressure.

I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.