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Quotes About High-pressure

The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes.
~ Harper Reed
Even in the investigations into direct production of calcium peroxide in an alkali melt with highly compressed oxygen, it was found to be necessary to bring the high-pressure gas into contact with the suspension of lime in caustic alkali melt by agitation or some other means of mixing.
~ Friedrich Bergius
I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.
~ Todd Haynes
It's very exciting to have a hit anything and it's also horrifying and a really high-pressure feeling sometimes. I feel like there's no end to the excitement and the freshness, because there's stuff happening every day. I think it's more like, within that whirlwind, how do you actually stay sane and keep your feet on the ground?
~ Karen Kilgariff
Years ago, I was always serious, and now I chuckle and make jokes to create a calm environment because 'WrestleMania' can be a high-pressure atmosphere.
~ Shawn Michaels
The key in a restaurant, and the key in any kind of high-pressure situation, I think, is that 75% of success is staying calm and not losing your nerve. The rest you figure out, but once you lose your calm, everything else starts falling apart fast.
~ Timothy Ferriss
It's a high-pressure situation to be in my position, but I've kind of gravitated toward those positions in sports. It's nothing that I worry too much about. I'm not going to act like I have the most stressful job in the world. This is pretty darn fun.
~ Stephen Gostkowski
One feeds the other... The loneliness of writing makes the communality of directing more joyful, and interacting with lots of people in a high-pressure situation makes me long to be alone in my office again.
~ Patrick Marber
Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here.
~ Robin Leach