Pressure Quotes
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I do feel pressure to look a certain way but am fighting that and focusing on being comfortable in my own skin exactly as it is.
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God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.
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There is no way the Americans are going to be able to carry out a full scale war against Iraq and at the same time maintain the same kind of pressure on the Al Qaeda network in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Philippines, and Pakistan, as well as in Europe.
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4 P’s to success: pressure, persistence, perseverance & prayer.
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When there is pressure for leaders to respond to problems or crises, they often simply intensify their efforts in their particular defined sphere of activity - even if that's not relevant to the real problem. To do otherwise requires taking on entrenched practices and asserting power in areas where it often will not be well received. And leaders tend to see major crises more as threats to their own position rather than as systemic challenges for the societies that they govern or the institutions that they manage.
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The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
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We just have to elevate our mindset and I think we can do it. All the pressure is off us now. We can just play our game. If we play like we can, it will be better than England. No question.
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I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.
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The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.
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I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.
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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
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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.
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The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.
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I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
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I press my back against the wall and feel the pressure of it against my whole body. I want to feel enclosed again, protected, safe as I was in the village. I wrap the blanket tightly around me, and I try to comfort myself by thinking about Tadeusz, but the loneliness that has opened up inside me is bigger than one person can fill.
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We've got to keep fighting. Got to keep agitating. Got to keep making sure that we put pressure on the people who make the laws, and the decisions, in this country.
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Come to Washington to help America put pressure on this administration.
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Sometimes imagine that I may have felt that I applied a relieving pressure on a life as a benevolent act, in that the subjects were ultimately free from life’s pain.
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I never put pressure on myself because I know who I am and where I come from.
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I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.
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The pressure is all on the pitcher. He doesn't want me to get a hit, and he doesn't want to walk me. There are probably a lot of negative thoughts bouncing around in his head.
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He makes the players feel relaxed and lets them play the game. He doesn't put pressure on the players. Sometimes, if you make a mistake, a manager will push you. He just talks to you about it like nothing happened.
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Shooting is a pretty essential thing in basketball, and when you make shots, it's so much easier. There's so much less tension and less pressure on you.
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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.
