Best 692 quotes in «pressure quotes» category

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

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.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

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.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before he goes into the office.

Once having said no to Donald Trump, Mitt Romney can't go back and say, I changed my mind, I'm bowing to the pressure from you.

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.

Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.

Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

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.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.

People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

Pressure only makes you sick. You won't get anything positive out of it.

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.

Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as well as for ad campaigns.

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.

Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.

Sometimes losing a series regular, if you're going to replace them with another series regular, that will put added pressure on your budget.

Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

Sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves with any kind of job we have that we kind of forget that we do this because it's supposed to be fun because we love it.

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.

Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!

Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.