Pressure Quotes
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Taking full advantage of all that college offers can be tough for teens facing a major life transition under pressure to perform. Perhaps we should all lower our expectations and let kids find their way.
Rachel Simmons
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Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
Evan Peters
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The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
Stan Coveleski
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I felt a lot of pressure, especially for the second jump. I know if I perform my best, I'm pretty sure I will get into the final. But to be ranked at number one in the qualification, it is a big surprise for me because all I want to do is to get into the final.
Han Xiaopeng
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You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.
Alastair Cook
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I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.
Michael Strahan
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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
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Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Selma Blair
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If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
Miroslav Volf
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When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.
Alec Baldwin
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It was my first competition of the year, so I did feel some pressure.
Yelena Isinbayeva
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When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.
Anne Hathaway
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
Vint Cerf
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Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
Bill Bonner
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There really is no pressure on me because the team was basically set and they were winning Super Bowls without me
Corey Dillon
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When you're on the show that's not the time to make decisions. It's before you get on it, so you won't be swayed by pressure. Mentally prepare yourself for the show, and set goals for yourself and stick to them.
Carmen Rasmusen
