Pressure Quotes · Page 45

Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.

— Jordan Burroughs

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

— Adam Granduciel

I had nerve damage. It was going to lead to amputation. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol.

— Eric Adams

Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.

— Nasser Hussain

You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when…

— Mirai Nagasu

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

— Gabrielle Union

I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse…

— Tommy Fleetwood

To play with pressure is always a good thing. I like to play with pressure.

— Virgil van Dijk

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really…

— Ariana Grande

One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on…

— Aimee Bender

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not…

— Anne Enright

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here…

— Jim Carrey

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

— Richard G. Scott

If you break down a game, two-thirds of it happens in the pocket the way it's supposed to, and a third of…

— Sean Payton

It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm…

— Nick Swardson

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being…

— Selma Blair

I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your…

— Nicolas Cage

With Serbia, there will always be pressure. We are the kind of players and people who do not know how to live…

— Dusan Tadic

The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions…

— Walter Millis

Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite…

— Shane Smith

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film…

— Domhnall Gleeson

When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what…

— Melissa Febos

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon…

— Horace Bushnell

I think the reason being Ravi Shankar's daughter is not such a pressure to me is that I don't look at myself…

— Anoushka Shankar

When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that…

— Rafael dos Anjos

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

— Ali Larter

You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.

— Joyce Meyer

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

— Dana Perino

The only pressure I ever feel is the pressure I put on myself... I'm over it. Now I go out there and…

— Cub Swanson

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

— Benjamin Koldyke

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

— R. Kelly

Everyone playing in the NBA likes to have pressure. If you didn't like pressure, you wouldn't be playing.

— Monty Williams

Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure.

— Chris Borland

I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

— Arianna Huffington

No one can deny there is a lot of pressure when Pakistan and India play, especially with the expectations of the fans…

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

— Mesut Ozil

You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.

— Jim Boeheim

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

— Elsa Maxwell

“People who pressure you usually deserve a “no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes".”

— Alan Cohen

You live and die by your goals. If you don't score, you quickly put yourself under pressure.

— Eidur Gudjohnsen