Pressure Quotes

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over.

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.