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Pressure Quotes

A lot of directors don’t want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

– Michael Bay

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

– Major Owens

Everybody handles pressure differently.

– Gerry Cooney

Normally, it takes me about three years to write one of the big books. It is usually four years between releases because of the huge amount of travel and PR and just nuisance going on around them. I have a lot of pressure from publishers and agents.

– Diana Galbadon

The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day – that’s a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It’s a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast.

– Paul Giamatti

The pressure is always stepping on stage with actors who are just so well-established. It’s a scary thing. I haven’t been around the block that many times, especially not on big projects. Dialogue makes things easier. When you start bouncing dialogue off of other actors, it becomes comfortable; it becomes conversational.

– David Bautista

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

– Donna Rice

As you get older it’s more confusing. Suddenly, there’s more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

– Chaz Bono

In a sportsperson’s life, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it.

– Mary Kom

I would never say that being Bob Marley’s son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.

– Damian Marley

People assume I’m a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.

– Donald Trump

We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It’s so much fun when you’re controlling it, but it’s also so much pressure.

– Maria Menounos

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.

– Martin Rees

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

– Marvin Sapp

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I’m living proof; it’s very real.

– Flume

I don’t type my sentences on an arena’s pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans – I don’t feel pressure to please a crowd.

– David Benioff

We’re putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

– Charles Kelley

Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.

– Michael Greger

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

– Mary Hart

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

– David R. Brower

When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn’t understand all the attention.

– Nadia Comaneci

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that’s just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

– Nancy Lublin

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

– Mehmet Oz

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

– Edward Sapir

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

– George Murray

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

– Gordon Ramsay

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

– Estelle Morris

Every statement that comes out of Washington that is not respectful and is trying to intimidate the Iranian people – is trying to put pressure on the Iranian people – strikes that very, very sensitive chord in the Iranian psyche, and they immediately react.

– Mohammad Javad Zarif

I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch ‘Battlestar Galactica’ before starting ‘Caprica’ because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

– Magda Apanowicz

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It’s a massive pressure that affects us all.

– Eric Cantona

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