Pressure Quotes - Page 17

• I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• I don't think there could ever be more pressure to succeed than the pressure I place on myself.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Thinking, Succeed

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• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Successful, Loss

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• Under pressure, you can win with your mind.

  Tiger Woods

  Wrestling, Winning, Mind

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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. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.

  Jules Verne

  Blow, Three, World

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• We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Cat, Blood

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• With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

  David Halberstam

  Book, Marketing, Television

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you're 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you're 30, but you still need your girlfriends.

  Kristen Wiig

  Girlfriend, Husband, Careers

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• We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Disappointment, Peers, Rage

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Government, Pressure Groups

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.241, Penguin

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• How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data.

  Steven Weinberg

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Honest, Deadline, My Time

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• The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Fear, Creating, Anxiety

  "Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.

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• What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Flower, Home, Animal

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• There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Religious, Opposites

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• American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, Government, Land

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• I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total ban on hunting on relationships between the police and the community in rural areas - a particularly significant consideration in current circumstances. Is it, I ask myself, sensible to divert valuable police time to enforce a ban on hunting when they are under so much pressure from violent crime?

  Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

  Hunting, Impact, Years

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• I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.

  Holly McPeak

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.

  Sue Enquist

  Softball, Team, Loss

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• Maybe if you're playing in London or America, you don't feel that pressure quite as much.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  America, London, Feels

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• Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

  Aleister Crowley

  Determination, Destiny, Ideas

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 48, 1969.

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• There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, www.bookreporter.com. October 29, 1999.

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• I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

  Dwight Gooden

  Games, Stay Calm, Trying

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