Best 692 quotes in «pressure quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

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.

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

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

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.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

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

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

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.

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

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

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.

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

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, 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, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Great performers welcome pressure.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?