Pressure Quotes · Page 72

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

— Jeb Bush

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

— Mike Lofgren

If you do try to peak for a certain event, you're putting too much pressure on yourself.

— Shane Lowry

As an athlete, you sometimes put unnecessary pressure on yourself.

— Uriah Hall

With Lady Antebellum, there's always pressure. It's hard for commerce not to rear its ugly head when you're making decisions.

— Charles Kelley

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

— Lamman Rucker

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be…

— Cathy Freeman

Before matches, there is a little bit of pressure, but on the pitch, you forget it all. You only think about playing…

— Marco Asensio

For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart.…

— Michelle Williams

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure…

— Ellen DeGeneres

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope…

— Antonin Sertillanges

“What's pretty important, and least was for me, (related an exceptionally good pinch-hitter on the pressures involved with failing with so much…

— Tim Wendel

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

— Peter Singer

No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be…

— Richard G. Scott

Obviously, I'm very happy when one of my films becomes a blockbuster. However, after a point, I want to switch off. I…

— Rohit Shetty

I had a slow start at West Ham, that's right. I came here and expectations were high because the fans were not…

— Marko Arnautovic

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of…

— Martha Beck

Our goal there, in my view, is to work and lean strongly on China to put as much pressure. China is one…

— Bernie Sanders

You live for those pressure moments. Through an international career, you have ups and downs, but you always feel you are going…

— AB de Villiers

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me.…

— Johnny Vegas

Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite…

— Stephan James

With 'Girls,' Marnie was a slow burn; she shifted over time. With 'Get Out,' I was suddenly faced with the pressure that,…

— Allison Williams

Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is…

— Michael Moss

Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that…

— Christian Burns

If you are feeling pressure, it should be before you get a contract and not after it.

— Evan Fournier

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch…

— Tupac Shakur

When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.

— Shaun White

You've got to want to compete with the best of the best and when the pressure's on.

— Alex Bregman

The fixation on preserving our faces is laughable but it also seems almost logical given societal pressure and scrutiny.

— Angela Scanlon

“Trust is developed under pressure and over time; just as with God by us." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

I like aggressive football and for players to put pressure on the ball.

— Gennaro Gattuso

I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

— Halima Aden

Peer pressure is like a mouse, it gnaws though the door till it finds its way through, only if we kill it…

— Awele Emili

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

— Ronald Koeman

As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.

— Barack Obama

The amount of pressure the guys are under from the English media is fierce.

— Rickie Lambert

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

— Bruno Frey

Pressure is not imposed on me by the club, I impose it on myself.

— Quique Setien

The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.

— Eddie Alvarez

Being team-mate to Michael Schumacher at Benetton in my first year of Formula One was certainly a high pressure situation.

— Jos Verstappen