Quotes about Pressure

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

As a footballer, everything you've achieved can easily be lost, and then you are nobody. That's just how life is, and that's why you shouldn't let things get you down. That's the reason I treat every match like a final.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

Come, come, the Baron said. We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke. The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise. Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.

Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

Remember: Deadlines, not dreadlines.