No Pressure Quotes

I put myself under immense pressure.

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.

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.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

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.

Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.

I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

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

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

Sometimes the most important word is no. It takes the pressure off.

There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

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.

Great performers welcome pressure.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

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.

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

You have to press against the pressure that’s pressing against you!

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

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

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.

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

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.