Under Pressure Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure.

  Cillian Murphy

  Book, People, Elements

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• The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But the unyielding will of the soldier and the dedication of professional military leaders will not change. Our soldiers can do a great deal more under pressure than people think. You'd have to see them perform in combat to believe it.

  George W. Dunaway

  Military, Believe, Army

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• David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.

  Edward Norton

  Reading, Giving, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'

  Vanilla Ice

  Rapper, Sound, Pressure

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• Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

  Jerry Pate

  Art, Golf, What Matters

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• The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, Successful

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• You know, there were all kinds of calls when George W. Bush left office in 2009 for the left to investigate him. [Barack] Obama and Eric Holder were under pressure to investigate and prosecute Bush. I bet most people don't remember this, but it wasn't until June 30th, 2011, that Eric Holder announced that of the more than 100 cases the Justice Department had reviewed, that there would be no charges brought in any of them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  June, Office, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, United States, Divine Revelation

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.51, Routledge

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• I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

  Tony Parker

  Love Is, Media, Pressure

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

  Robert Barry

  Artist, Pressure, Facts

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.

  Bassem Youssef

  Thinking, Egypt, Office

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Reality, Long Walks, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

  James Hunter

  Waiting, Lasts, Pressure

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.

  Seth Klarman

  Quality, Pressure, Dip

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• It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.

  Peggy Fleming

  Character, Grace, Gold

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• You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

  John F. Kerry

  Sports, Play, Grace

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• I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

  Steven Tyler

  Waiting, Way, Lasts

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• Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

  Al Franken

  Stress, Comedian, Pressure

  "Al Franken Interview". Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

  Jayson Blair

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• We are a Russian group and we want to change the situation in Russia. We criticize our own government and it would be strange if we did that from abroad. We don't need performances in the West to put Putin's regime under pressure. The punishments against us have shown us that we succeeded.

  Yekaterina Samutsevich

  Strange, Situation, Criticize

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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