255 Quotes on Pressure

• If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

  Author: Panayiotis Zavos

• We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

  Author: Wu Yi

• The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

  Author: Carl Yastrzemski

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

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Author: Steven Wright

• I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

  Author: Herman Wouk

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

  Author: Douglas Wood

• I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

  Author: Markus Wolf

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

  Author: Earl Wilson

• No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it.

  Author: Shaun White

• I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

  Author: Kim Weston

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  Author: Randy West

• For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

  Author: Shawn Wayans

• Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

  Author: James Watson

• I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.

  Author: Emily Watson

• 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.

  Author: Abdurrahman Wahid

• The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

  Author: William Vickrey

• The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.

  Author: James Vega

• In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.

  Author: Lee Trevino

• Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

  Author: Lee Trevino

• As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

  Author: Cal Thomas

• I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

  Author: Cathy Tempelsman

• Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

  Author: Cathy Tempelsman

• Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

  Author: David Talbot

• It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

  Author: David Talbot

• When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

  Author: David Talbot

• At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

  Author: Mats Sundin

• I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.

  Author: Mats Sundin

• Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

  Author: Joe Strummer

• 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.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

  Author: Elvis Stojko

• I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

  Author: Nicholas Stern

• There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

  Author: Leelee Sobieski

• I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

  Author: Paul Simon

• I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

  Author: Clare Short

• But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

  Author: Clare Short

• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• You can almost taste the pressure now.

  Author: Vin Scully

• I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

  Author: Morley Safer

• Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  Author: Wayne Rooney

• I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

  Author: Rebecca Romijn

• Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.

  Author: Roy Romer

• If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

  Author: John Robinson

• The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

  Author: Alice Rivlin

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  Author: Sally Ride

• A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

  Author: Donna Rice

• There is pressure every day as a footballer.

  Author: Jamie Redknapp

• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Author: Robert Redford

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  Author: Dan Rather

• Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.

  Author: John Polanyi

• He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

  Author: Plato

• Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

  Author: Mary Pipher

• I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

  Author: Michelle Pfeiffer

• I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.

  Author: Mike Peters

• I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

  Author: Ron Perlman

• It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian.

  Author: Elizabeth Pena

• It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

  Author: Theodore Parker

• This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

  Author: Chan Park

• 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.

  Author: Major Owens

• Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

  Author: John Otto

• Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

  Author: Bobby Orr

• I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

  Author: Tim O'Reilly

• I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

  Author: David Obey

• Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

  Author: Jerry Nachman

• The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

  Author: Mike Myers

• I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

  Author: George Murray

• There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

  Author: Dennis Moore

• When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

  Author: Mark Messier

• The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

  Author: Mark Messier

• We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure.

  Author: Maria Menounos

• The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.

  Author: Maria Menounos

• You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

  Author: Sam Mendes

• I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

  Author: Bill McCollum

• I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

  Author: Rachel McAdams

• Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

  Author: Elsa Maxwell

• In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

  Author: Richard Marx

• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  Author: Kamisese Mara

• Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

  Author: Peyton Manning

• There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

  Author: Nancy Lopez

• Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

  Author: LaToya London

• Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

  Author: Vince Lombardi

• I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

  Author: Lisa Leslie

• The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

  Author: Mike Leigh

• I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• 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.

  Author: Tommy Lasorda

• Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

  Author: Jack LaLanne

• I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

  Author: Takeru Kobayashi

• The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

  Author: Aaron Klug

• The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

  Author: Jahangir Khan

• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

  Author: Imran Khan

• And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

  Author: Imran Khan

• The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

  Author: Imran Khan

• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  Author: Florence Kelley

• It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.

  Author: Al Kaline

• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

  Author: Kim Jung

• No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

  Author: Ashley Judd

• Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

  Author: Vernon Jordan

• We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

  Author: Bruce Jenner

• There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

  Author: LeBron James

• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.

  Author: Bobby Hull

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  Author: Cal Hubbard

• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

  Author: Dwayne Hickman

• For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

  Author: Jay Hernandez

• People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

  Author: Keith Henson

• Courage is grace under pressure.

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

  Author: Georg Hegel

• 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.

  Author: Orrin Hatch

• There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

  Author: Mary Hart

• The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.

  Author: Mary Hart

• 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.

  Author: Jerry Harrison

• As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

  Author: Daniela Hantuchova

• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Author: Lee Haney

• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Author: Lee Haney

• Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate.

  Author: Lee Haney

• There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

  Author: Geri Halliwell

• 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.

  Author: Michael Hall

• With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

  Author: Judith Guest

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

  Author: Andy Grove

• When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

  Author: Winston Graham

• As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

  Author: David Gower

• The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

  Author: Gilbert Gottfried

• Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.

  Author: Cuba Gooding, Jr.

• In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

  Author: Steven Gerrard

• We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Author: Robert Frost

• I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

  Author: David Friedman

• I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

  Author: Morgan Freeman

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

  Author: Cathy Freeman

• Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

  Author: Al Franken

• A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

  Author: Guy Forget

• In those days there was not so much pressure on us.

  Author: Just Fontaine

• It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

  Author: Ben Folds

• You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

  Author: Emerson Fittipaldi

• You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

  Author: Rio Ferdinand

• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  Author: Douglas Feith

• The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

  Author: Laurent Fabius

• I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

  Author: Daniel Evans

• I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

  Author: Robert Englund

• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

  Author: Sibel Edmonds

• We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

  Author: Shirin Ebadi

• It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

  Author: Gregg Easterbrook

• The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

  Author: John Dyer

• Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

  Author: Dick Durbin

• I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

  Author: Hilary Duff

• There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

  Author: Julia Dreyfus

• What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

  Author: Thelma Drake

• Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

  Author: Phil Donahue

• It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

  Author: Matt Dillon

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  Author: Cameron Diaz

• Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

  Author: Andrew Denton

• 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.

  Author: Ted Demme

• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  Author: Barbara Deming

• When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

  Author: Gavin DeGraw

• Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

  Author: Morris Dees

• The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

  Author: Gerard Debreu

• If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

  Author: Eric Davis

• The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

  Author: Ted Danson

• I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

  Author: Jeff Daniels

• I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

  Author: Kenny Dalglish

• I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

  Author: Tom Cruise

• I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

  Author: Deborah Cox

• It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

  Author: Jilly Cooper

• Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

  Author: Norm Coleman

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

  Author: Edwin Cole

• All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

  Author: Sebastian Coe

• Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

  Author: Brian Clough

• There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

  Author: Hillary Clinton

• The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

  Author: John Clayton

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

  Author: Noam Chomsky

• All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

  Author: Noam Chomsky

• The free world is really helping Lebanon restore its sovereignty. I imagine there is quite a bit of pressure on Syria to leave. I hope they leave in a peaceful way.

  Author: Camille Chamoun

• Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.

  Author: Sarah Chalke

• Get tough: don't work under pressure; work over pressure.

  Author: Brian Celio

• I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

  Author: Mary Carpenter

• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

  Author: Richard Carlson

• The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

  Author: Arthur Capper

• The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

  Author: Eric Cantona

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

  Author: Vivian Campbell

• I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.

  Author: David Cameron

• We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

  Author: John Callahan

• When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

  Author: Miguel Cabrera

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

  Author: Kobe Bryant

• Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

  Author: Kurt Browning

• Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

  Author: Jackson Browne

• We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

  Author: Ray Brown

• A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

  Author: David Brower

• I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

  Author: Harold Brodkey

• We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

  Author: Lloyd Bridges

• The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

  Author: Ben Bradlee

• It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

  Author: Jan Bont

• We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

  Author: Bobby Bonilla

• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  Author: Barry Bonds

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

  Author: Kit Bond

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  Author: Earl Blumenauer

• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

  Author: Felix Bloch

• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

  Author: Augustine Birrell

• The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

  Author: Carl Bernstein

• There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

  Author: Tom Berenger

• It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

  Author: John Belushi

• It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

  Author: Gerry Beckley

• There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

  Author: Beck

• 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.

  Author: Michael Bay

• There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

  Author: John Barry

• A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

  Author: Arthur Baer

• Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

  Author: Alain Badiou

• The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

  Author: Roy Ayers

• I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

  Author: Bea Arthur

• There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

  Author: Darren Aronofsky

• To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

  Author: Dario Argento

• 'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

  Author: Richard Allen

• The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

  Author: Amy Alcott

• There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

  Author: Alfred Adler

• I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

  Author: Jack Abbott

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