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Pressure Quotes

Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

– Rafael dos Anjos

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

– Richard Simmons

In MMA it’s a lot less intimidating because it’s not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months… With the Olympics, you don’t always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.

– Ronda Rousey

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

– Penny Lancaster

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

– Robert Wyatt

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever – check the tire pressure.

– Richard Hammond

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don’t need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

– Ruud van Nistelrooy

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.

– Rahm Emanuel

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

– Yani Tseng

I think that no matter what you’re doing as a teenager, you’re going to be presented with peer pressure.

– Sara Paxton

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

– Zong Qinghou

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you’re going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

– Shawn Ryan

There’s more pressure as a writer. As an actor you usually just go, do your job, and go home.

– Will McCormack

My son, before he went to school, he’d eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, ‘Oh, you’re gonna eat that. That’s horrible. That’s disgusting.’

– Tom Colicchio

The pressure isn’t on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

– Ted Danson

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

– Shirin Ebadi

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

– Sabine Baring-Gould

On set, there’s a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

– Spike Jonze

In an enclosed space, a camel’s breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It’s so disgusting. It’s like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.

– Steve Carell

I was born with this. It’s a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something’s wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

– Steven Cojocaru

As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant – whether it produces chemicals or records – accept responsibility for what it produces.

– Tipper Gore

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

– Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Crisis and pressure help foster change – that’s why I’m not so pessimistic towards crises.

– Wolfgang Schauble

There will always be a lot of pressure to cope with.

– Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Hermits have no peer pressure.

– Steven Wright

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

– Taylor Swift

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

– Sigmund Freud

You can almost taste the pressure now.

– Vin Scully

I don’t get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.

– Sam Trammell

There’s a difference between stress and pressure.

– Spike Jonze

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