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Quotes About Pressure

Goaltending can steal you a series.
~ Barry Trotz
In high school, I figured I'd get a few extra baskets by getting steals. I would just pressure up the ball.
~ Andre Iguodala
When it comes to Everest, psychologically, you have to be in the red. If you're not, it doesn't matter how fit you are. I've seen the fittest of people, who I thought would steam up the top of Everest, allow the pressure to take over their body.
~ Ant Middleton
It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.
~ Danielle Steel
And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
~ Gregory Harrison
The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.
~ Dave Gahan
When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect.
~ Jason Bonham
Do you think the UFC is going to owe you a favor when you step up on short notice when nobody else is doing it? There's a reason a whole bunch of us aren't doing it. If you want to be that scapegoat, and think that the UFC's going to owe you one, good luck with that. Let me know how that goes.
~ Aljamain Sterling
I've always been the person that, when it's time to step to the plate under a big situation, that's when I perform my best.
~ Caleb Plant
There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.
~ Adam Rippon
Stephen King is one of my all-time heroes, so, of course, the pressure never lets up. Every second, you hope he'll like it. I remember getting a call from him after he read my script for 'Hearts in Atlantis.' He liked it. Talk about relief.
~ William Goldman
As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.
~ Brian J. White
Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.
~ Elliott Abrams
First and foremost, stepping into something like a Marvel project is insane. I mean, my character is from 1968, and she's the second female X-Men ever. It's exciting, but it's also a great amount of pressure to do right by the character.
~ Emma Dumont
Not once did I feel pressurised that I was stepping into Mr. Bachchan's shoes. I don't say I didn't feel the pressure of starring in a remake of 'Zanjeer,' but somewhere, that worked to my advantage.
~ Ram Charan
I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it's so hard - you're competing against your friends, and you're working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they're thinking.
~ Florence Pugh
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
~ Laura Chinchilla
We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps.
~ Marie Helvin
When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.
~ Azim Premji
Such are some of the non-praiseworthy incentives of those who would fertilize the future. And they are all pressures of one kind or another. These pressures build up in people throughout their lifetimes and cry to be released, just as our bowels cry to be released to avoid the discomfort of a fecal build-up. And who, if they could help it, wants the discomfort of a fecal build-up? So we make bowel movements to relieve this pressure.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Doch Warten war ein Luxus, den er sich nicht mehr leisten konnte.
~ Thomas Mullen
She had been through hard straits herself and assumed that persons of quality did not discuss them. Steel exists to support pressure.
~ Thornton Wilder
Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.
~ Tia Williams
By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.
~ Tia Williams