Under Pressure Quotes - Page 4

• We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Mean, Winning, Grace

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• Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

  Bill Bonner

  Running, Adversity, Men

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• 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?'

  Peter York

  People, Feelings, Pressure

  "The man and the marabou" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Morning, Children, Fighting

  Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

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• All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

  Peter York

  Fashion, Luxury, Design

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• They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

  Shimon Peres

  Men, Negative Words, Parent

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.

  Zach Woods

  Adversity, Math, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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• I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.

  Aisha Tyler

  Done, Pressure, Overwhelmed

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

  John Cleese

  Play, Curiosity, Done

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• The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.

  Stewart Cink

  Character, Golf, Games

  "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.

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• A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

  Virginia Foxx

  Believe, Attention, May

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• Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

  George Will

  Sports, Appreciation, School

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.

  Beth Ditto

  Hate, Pressure, Wells

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• I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.

  Zadie Smith

  Husband, Bleeding, Pressure

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• In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
  And, like it or not, you're in it.

  Steve Sheinkin

  Teamwork, Sight, Example

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

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Research, Pressure, Used

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• This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

  Doris Lessing

  Song, Joy, Shapes

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• Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.

  Titian

  Artist, Giving, Mind

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 71, 2002.

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• No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Sleep, Night

  ALCS News, May 2006.

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• To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Creativity, Player

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical - I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.

  Roger Federer

  Moving, Years, Stay Positive

  "Federer's mental powers keep record in sight" by Richard Jago, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2007.

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• I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

  Judith Hill

  Past, Pressure, Nervous

  Source: collider.com

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• Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

  Titian

  Art, Essence, Giving

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 71, 2002.

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• Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  "Crouch rises to the occasion but Smith laid low with a broken leg" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

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• 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.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

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