Quotes on Pressure

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

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

Author: Bobby Bonilla

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

Author: Jan Bont

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

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

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

Author: Vivian Campbell

No pressure, no diamonds.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Author: Sebastian Coe

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

Author: Edwin Cole

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 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

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Author: Andrew Denton

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Author: Phil Donahue

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

Author: Julia Dreyfus

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

Author: Just Fontaine

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

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

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

Author: Temple Grandin

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

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

Author: Bobby Hull

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

Author: Ashley Judd

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

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

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

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

Author: Mark Messier

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

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

Author: John Otto

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

Author: Elizabeth Pena

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

Author: Dan Rather

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

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

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

Author: Sydney Schanberg

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

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

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

Author: Mats Sundin

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

Author: Mats Sundin

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

Author: Lee Trevino

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

Author: Emily Watson

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

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

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

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Author: Steven Wright

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

Author: Robert Wyatt