Pressure Quotes - Page 3

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress

There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I love the pressure of managing Manchester United

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.

Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.

Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.