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Quotes About Pressure

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
~ David Mamet
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
~ Hudson Taylor
If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.
~ Jose Mourinho
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
~ Abdurrahman Wahid
I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
~ Eden Sher
My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'
~ James Caan
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
~ Christine Baranski
Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.
~ Andy Serkis
There's tons of external and internal pressures that we deal with but live for God and you'll be alright.
~ Jonathan McReynolds
The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.
~ Karen Gillan
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
~ Adam Duritz
I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.
~ Bryan Cranston
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
~ Tracey Ullman
Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.
~ Linda Barnes
There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.
~ Ray Floyd
When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.
~ Emma Watson
It is very difficult for those always in the spotlight who have constant pressure on them where there is however but a tiny window of freedom if your fortunate enough not to dream." -Julian Quintero
~ Julian Quintero
The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU.
~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
~ Jack Nicklaus
My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.
~ Troian Bellisario
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
~ Paul Nurse
TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.
~ Jimmy Carr
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
~ Joan Didion