Pressure Quotes
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The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... The Americans are great boilermakers.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.
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The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
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We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.
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I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
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Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.
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There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
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There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
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The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.
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You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
