There’s always going to be that pressure when you’re in front of the camera. When you’re famous it’s just an extreme version of reality and there’s a pressure to look a certain way. – Geri Halliwell
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don’t always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well. – Cal Hubbard
People think you have pressure when you are young. It’s the other way round, actually. – Nadia Comaneci
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I’ve given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. – Gilbert Gottfried
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. – Florence Kelley
Walmart’s period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country. – George Packer
People just don’t realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them. – Frederica Mathewes-Green
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. – Elsa Maxwell
The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes. – George Packer
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. – Felix Bloch
My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn’t crank up my elbow like everyone else’s curveballs. – Drew Pomeranz
When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure. – Margot Robbie
At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well. – Mats Sundin
Grip pressure – not mechanical flaws – is the biggest factor when you’re nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you’ll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize. – Ernie Els
You can’t do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there’s nothing you can do – unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. – Markus Wolf
The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That’s usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation. – Michael Strahan
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. – George Packer
But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. – Clare Short
There’s a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don’t expect of you. – David Denman
When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself. – Eric Shanteau
When I was commander of Central Command, obviously we were very concerned about the developments in Yemen, the developments in Somalia and elsewhere, in Africa and so forth. But the al Qaeda senior leadership is under unprecedented pressure. – David Petraeus
I have definitely worked on that… being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure. – Daniel Cormier
All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can’t wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you? – Mary Roach
If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system. – Michael Greger
When people put that sort of pressure on you, you’re worried that people won’t want to receive you. – Gavin DeGraw
If you want to get a facelift, get a facelift. Don’t sit there and talk about why you got it because of the pressure. – Debra Winger
