Pressure Quotes - Page 39

• If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

  Miroslav Volf

  Exit, Reconcile, Ifs

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• I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

  Colin Greenwood

  Play, Alcohol, Volume

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• If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

  Mehmet Oz

  Blood, Knowing, Company

  "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2009.

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• There’s a lot of pressure playing something that existed for so many years before you were involved, and already has a fan base. I approached it by doing it as well as I can.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Years, Fans, Wells

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• When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

  Ron Kauk

  Climbing, Sponsors, Climbs

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• It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Sleep, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

  Dhani Harrison

  Play, People, Four

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be successful you have to deal with CRAP. Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.

  Ryan Blair

  Successful, Rejection, Criticism

  FaceBook post by Ryan Blair from Jun 22, 2013

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• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

  Felicity Huffman

  Gone, Rating, Fats

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• For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

  Jay Hernandez

  Thinking, Feelings, Source

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• Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.

  Walt Mueller

  Kids, Peer Pressure, Peers

  Walt Mueller (1999). “Understanding Today's Youth Culture”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.

  Walt Mueller

  Kids, Reality, Age

  Walt Mueller (1999). “Understanding Today's Youth Culture”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

  Peter Mandelson

  Squares, Europe, Insecurity

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

  Carroll Quigley

  Christian, Attitude, Personality

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

  Anthony Holden

  Space, Giving, Feelings

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• Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

  Vinton Cerf

  Survival, Crisis

  "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

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• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Keys, Government, Iraq

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Choices, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Choices, Temptation, Overcoming

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• I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Thinking, Goal, Ifs

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2007.

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• I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Jobs, Crazy, Careers

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• Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

  Chris Isaak

  Fun, Singing, Feels

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• I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.

  Ryan Hall

  Opportunity, Thinking, Incredibles

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• You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

  John Galliano

  Lasts, Enormous, Collections

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• But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

  Felicity Jones

  Thinking, Interesting, Realizing

  "Felicity Jones and the buzz about Hysteria". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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