Pressure Quotes
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When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
Oscar Wilde
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You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.
Brian Tracy
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The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.
Brian Tracy
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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.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.
Zadie Smith
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If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.
Mesut Ozil
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Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.
Baker Brownell
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
Alicia Keys
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I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.
Donald Miller
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
Salman Rushdie
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Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are profitable in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.
Andrew Zimbalist