Pressure Quotes - Page 22

Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.

I've lived with pressure all my life. I enjoy it.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.

I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.

Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.

Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.