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“I can speak for myself and say that a lot of times you just make mistakes! You're under pressure to get something done in a limited amount of time, and so you just dive in without really knowing what you're getting yourself into.”

I Can Done Speak Mistake Knowing Amount Pressure Making Mistakes Under Pressure

Author:Christopher Tin

“When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.”

Feels Pressure Looking Forward

Author:Scott Weiland

“People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.”

People Ifs Important Certain Dies Fall Levels Break Risk Blood Pressure Hips Frailty Blood Pressure High Risk Mammograms

Author:Atul Gawande

“I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.”

Thinking Men Guy Strong Sex Emotional Pressure Supposed To Be X Men

Author:Patti Smith

“The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.”

Way Trying Care Political Social Leader Issues Fire Feet Movement Conscience Pressure Social Movements Persuading

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division.”

People Ifs Thinking Kids School Left Parent Results Teacher Produce Pressure Division Parents And Teachers Quick Fixes

Author:Deborah Meier

“Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Giving Feels Feelings Hours Easier Pressure What You Want Guilty Conquer Individualism Conquer The World Feeling Guilty Doing What You Want

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.”

People Looks Home School Perfect Clothes Pressure Incredibles Teens Home Life

Author:Deborah Reber

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

Too Much Pressure Gorbachev

Author:Natan Sharansky

“Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.”

Fun Easy Audience Band Pressure Warming Up

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Matter Helping Situation Team Pressure Nickels

Author:Darius Philon

“Meditation is one of the most therapeutic things that one can do for the body and mind. Specifically, studies demonstrate a reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, and other stress marker indicators.”

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Author:Tim McCarthy

“I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.”

Knows Want Wells I Can Fall Know How Pressure

Author:Tyler Thornburg

“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.”

Thinking Children Mother Certain Social Amount Behavior Standards Pressure Regard Our Children Conform Unnatural Social Pressure

Author:Jillian Medoff

“I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."”

Thinking World Way Needs Mean Desire Pleasure Secret Building Conflict Pressure Overwhelming Relieved Secretive

Author:Philip Schultz

“I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.”

Men Littles Facts Choices Enjoy Fashion Loneliness Gay Pressure Addiction Illness Mental Illness Isolation Embarrassing Gay Men Susceptible Pitfalls

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.”

Song Band Members Pressure

Author:Joey Jordison

“There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.”

Bigs Projects Tough Pressure Flexible Robust

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.”

Play Bigs Sports Areas Pressure Legs Shoulders Knees Strain Big Things

Author:Gerad Adams

“There's quite a bit of pressure, but it's a lot of fun, it's enjoyable. I think one of the biggest things is being organised, having things written down. Keep the players aware of the other teams, what the other teams' tendencies are, and just to keep on top of things.”

Thinking Fun Bits Player Written Team Pressure Tendencies Enjoyable Organised

Author:Gerad Adams

“I think it's something that you learn to deal with the more experienced you become. When I first presented live news, which was 12 years ago, I was very inexperienced and probably didn't deal with the pressure as well. I used to breathe very shallow when I was presenting and you could hear it in my voice and see it in my face.”

Thinking Years Firsts Wells Faces Used Voice Deals News Years Ago Pressure Breathe Shallow Presenting

Author:Jill Douglas

“I'm very lucky to be at this level and it is very hard to catch up. It is all about holding on and it is very important to learn from the other drivers. I tend to put a lot of pressure on myself, wanting to be very good very quickly, which forces me to up my game.”

Important Hard Games Force Levels Lucky Pressure Very Good Drivers Holding On

Author:Liz Halliday

“Being able to work as part of a team is essential. You learn to give as well as receive support. I have learnt to be focused and I have carried this with me elsewhere in my life. I am also a safer driver and I am a stronger person mentally as I am constantly under pressure and have to deal with things.”

Giving Wells Persons Able Deals Support Team Essentials Stronger Pressure Focused Drivers Elsewhere Under Pressure Stronger Person

Author:Liz Halliday

“I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.”

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Author:Chris Hoy

“If you go to the line knowing you have given it absolutely 100% in every training session you have done, you know that there's nothing else you could have done and that helps you to deal with the pressure.”

Ifs Knows Done Helping Given Lines Deals Knowing Training Pressure Session

Author:Chris Hoy

“We've found that the biggest thing as far as the danger is simply pressure.When we work with explosives, we've got bomb technicians there, bomb-squad guys who go into unknown situations all the time, and they've dealt with it safely.”

Guy Found Situation Danger Pressure Bombs Explosives Squad Technicians

Author:Jamie Hyneman

“I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.”

Want Feels Hours Serious Pressure Going Away

Author:Jim Carrey

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

People Thinking Social Pressure Threat Loyalty Intense Isolation Family And Friends Social Change Social Pressure Sudden Change

Author:Keith Henson

“There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.”

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Author:Aaliyah

“I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.”

Jobs Courses Expectations Stress Pressure Coaches Stressful

Author:Brendan Rodgers

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

People Feels Doe Seems Evidence Pressure Procrastinating

Author:James Surowiecki

“I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.”

Deals Pressure Tendencies Under Pressure

Author:Kevin Costner

“All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.”

People Thinking Kids Wanted Son Pressure Advertising Teenager Performing My Son Awkward Victoria No Pressure

Author:Tony Blackburn

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

Thinking Might Pressure Remains

Author:Paul Auster

“Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is.”

“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.”

People Life Looks Seems Deals Stress Pressure Handle Look Up Our Society Load Judaism Stressors Reduce Stress Under Stress

Book:A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers

Source: A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers

“Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.”

Sometimes Winning Loses Pay Situation Majors Pressure Mature More Time Wrestling Championship Better Off You Can Win

Author:Tom Watson

“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.”

Littles Energy Smart Pressure Swim Swimming Relays

Author:Michelle Williams

“The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.”

Sports Team Pressure Handle Carrie Teamwork

Author:Imran Khan

“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.”

Needs Government Sides Drug Pressure Borders Immigrants Illegal Mexican Illegal Immigrants Exporting

Author:Timothy Murphy

“There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.”

Thinking Love Worry Love You Quiet Pressure Who You Are Competition Being Yourself Calmness Think Of You Reggae

Author:Bob Marley

“The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.”

Men Trying Heart Real Form Passion Shapes Pressure Various

Book:Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.”

Ifs Giving Should Grace Mines Serious Circumstances Prove Resources Give Me Difficulty Pressure Trials Guidance No Fear Emergencies Perplexity

Author:Hudson Taylor

“All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.”

Ifs Hands Running Together Faces Force Felt Sound My Own Behinds Heard Pressure Hot Rising Breasts Gray Yellow Nurse Bowls Soup Rushing Corridors Supernatural Forces

Book:March

Source: March

“If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.”

Ifs Looks Enough Problem Moving Difficult Powerful Steps Impossible Mountain Pressure Celebrate Gentle Relax Stillness Steps Forward Turtles Move Mountains Small Changes

Author:Martha Beck

“It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him.”

Long Doe Matter Lying Greater Pressure Presses Savior Dependence

Author:Hudson Taylor

“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.”

Ifs Knows Looks Know How Respect Pressure Boards Look Up Phony

Author:John Robinson

“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.”

Real Artist Pressure Lifestyle Wander Landscape Attractive Deadline

Author:John Dyer

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