Pressure Quotes - Page 12

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of North Korea's energy. The United States have to put pressure on China in order for China to pressure North Korea.

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.

People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.

Uncool is a cool resting place. The pressure's off me.

I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

There's always going to be an element of pressure when you walk on the stage.

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker bomb is a good guy with a slightly larger pressure cooker bomb.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

It’s not really pressure, unless you’re not prepared.

Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.