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Pressure Quotes

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

– Bobby Orr

I’ve been in a lot of pressure situations; I know what I can do.

– Bradley Wiggins

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite – and that’s their only objective. You can’t really move or eat. You’re just stuck there. It’s pressure, constant pressure.

– Annabella Sciorra

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

– Akshay Kumar

Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.

– Carine Roitfeld

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’

– Al Gore

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

– Anurag Kashyap

In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.

– August Krogh

I think I thrive under pressure.

– Charlotte Dujardin

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn’t work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

– Geoffrey Canada

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I’ve decided I’m a singer and that’s enough.

– Natalie Imbruglia

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

– David Bowie

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you’re capable of.

– Paula Radcliffe

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

– Eliot Spitzer

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

– Earl Wilson

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there’s always pressure. What else can you come up with?

– Michael Patrick King

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

No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

– Charles E. Wilson

It’s infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

– Eric Topol

Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

– David Nalbandian

As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.

– Michael Greger

I’ve been fortunate Daytona is a place I’ve run better than anywhere else, and that’s a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

– Danica Patrick

I obviously don’t feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don’t judge people who choose to have it, but I don’t want to erase who I am.

– Diane von Furstenberg

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

– David Talbot

This is normal, to have pressure. It’s how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

– Chan Ho Park

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There’s a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

– Melissa Rauch

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

– Nancy Lopez

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

– Dick Durbin

What’s most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

– Matthew Pearl

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

– Chadwick Boseman

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