Best 692 quotes in «pressure quotes» category

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

[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.

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.

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

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

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

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

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.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

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.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

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