No Pressure Quotes

She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)

We really just try not to think about the scrutiny and the pressure. We're just trying to make the show that we like, and we're working really hard at it.

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. And the great thing about a scramble, there's less pressure because you don't feel like every shot has to be your shot.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

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?

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

Rarely do I ever think of my music as inspired but I guess it must be. Perhaps I would use the word "crockpotted" or "pressure-cooked".

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

Theres such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I'm not too worried.

The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong.

A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.

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

It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

Pressure is part of what we do. It's always present.

I think in my car somebody is playing with the pressure and the temperatures.

The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you know, I put a lot of thought and energy, that's for sure.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

There's less pressure to look good as you get older.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.