Best 692 quotes in «pressure quotes» category

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

It is on balance desirable to encourage Universal Jurisdiction, and to create pressure from below to make application of such jurisdiction as consistent as possible. I think this will act as a deterrent in some situations, although this impact will never be acknowledged by those affected as it would only embolden civil society to intensify its pressures.

It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins.

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that's really about it.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.

It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

It’s been a dream to work with Netflix because they don’t have any pressure from advertisers.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

I urge everyone to be patient and reasonable and I warn against shooting from the hip in the truest sense of the term. Pressure and dialogue are needed.

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

I've always been lucky with blood pressure. I've always had very good blood pressure.

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

It’s not really pressure, unless you’re not prepared.

It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .

It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved.

It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology. And so it was against that backdrop that the early space flights took off.

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.

I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.

I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch Battlestar Galactica before starting Caprica because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.