Best 692 quotes in «pressure quotes» category

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the word deflation ... what they think of it is, "Hard to hold my margin. I'm under margin pressure. I'm under sales pressure. I'm under cost pressure.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting fraud - all the while continuing to pressure banks to make absurd, politically correct loans and denouncing Republicans as enemies of the poor.

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

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.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.

Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.

Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

Don't put so much pressure on yourself. Be happy with who you are and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself. You've got a long time to figure everything out and there's no rush. Enjoy the now.

Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

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