Pressure Quotes
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If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.
Quentin Tarantino -
I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
Bill Murray
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In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.
August Krogh -
Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
Ian Fleming -
The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.
Tones and I -
What has happened at Indiana, every game becomes a final exam. You are judged by your most recent performance, and that makes it tough for everybody in the program. It's tough enough to try to win without having that kind of pressure.
Dick Vitale -
It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
Ben Bernanke
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To me it's like starting all over, ... If you've watched any of the games I've played at the point guard position, it's honestly hard for other teams to stop it, because I'm putting pressure on guys. We don't always have to come down and rely on getting points off a set offense. We get a chance to run up and down the court and get a lot of easy baskets.
Allen Iverson -
The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.
Brian Tracy -
You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.
Caroline Polachek Chairlift -
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
Ted Nelson -
I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.
Gabrielle Aplin -
It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.
Ian Baker-Finch
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
Imran Khan -
I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
Alicia Keys -
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 -
There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.
Ian Stannard -
We have to maintain the pressure. I can tell you one thing -- Iran has not enjoyed the last two resolutions we tabled.
Pierre Pettigrew -
That's not unusual for a player to lose concentration if certain phases of the game go wrong for him. He put some pressure on himself to score. All players want to score as a part of their game. . . . I don't know where his confidence is. You either have it or you don't have it. It doesn't reside in your jockstrap or your brain. His confidence should be in his defense. That's where he plays and rebounds and hustles for us.
Phil Jackson
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When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.
Rick Pitino -
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
Alan Hansen -
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