Pressure Quotes

• I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Way
  • Government
  • Influence

• The euro is under pressure already today and this is adding to its problems.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Problems
  • Pressure
  • Euro

• Everyone feels pressure, it's how you deal with it that's important. It's very unusual for Aussie teams to have a losing streak like this, so you want to snap out of it.

  

  George Gregan
  • Pressure
  • Losing
  • Teams

• Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous

  

  Allan Holdsworth
  • Pressure
  • Musician
  • Expect

• If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

  

  Armond White
  • Marketing
  • Critics
  • Suckers

• I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Doing
  • Creative
  • Comics

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

  

  Barack Obama
  • Pressure
  • Coalitions
  • Isil

• But now, we don't have that pressure, and we don't have to stay out on the road for six months.

  

  Eric Carmen
  • Road
  • Pressure

• I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Process
  • Survival
  • Healing

• It was my first competition of the year, so I did feel some pressure.

  

  Yelena Isinbayeva
  • Competition
  • Year
  • Pressure

• Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • High
  • Needs

• We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

  

  Wu Yi
  • Pressure
  • Reform
  • External

• Swiftly gliding in, blushing like a girl, a tall thin stripling held out both his hands; and although I could hardly believe as I looked at his flushed feminine, and artless face that it could be the Poet, I returned his warm pressure. After the ordinary greetings and courtesies he sat down and listened. I was silent from astonishment: was it possible that this mild-mannered beardless boy could be the veritable monster of the world?–ex-communicated by the Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family,and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school? I could not believe it; it must be a hoax.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Church

• I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Feels
  • Able
  • Pieces

• I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Human
  • Wor
  • Don't Understand

• I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

  

  Kate Reed
  • Thought
  • Jump
  • Last

• My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Pressure
  • Gain
  • Civil Rights

• Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Feeling
  • Economic
  • Himself

• The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Feels
  • Pressure

• There's quite a bit of pressure, but it's a lot of fun, it's enjoyable. I think one of the biggest things is being organised, having things written down. Keep the players aware of the other teams, what the other teams' tendencies are, and just to keep on top of things.

  

  Gerad Adams
  • Players
  • Teams
  • Enjoyable

• We live in that grave, in those clothes, in the pressure between nothing and everything, we live by perpetual movement from place to place but we want oh we so much want to escape to say it all to come home at last to the right place our rightful place our rightful space. As if that was possible.

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • Live
  • Pressure
  • Escape

• Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Long
  • Practice
  • Ability

• The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.

  

  Steve Waugh
  • Worry
  • Enjoy
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