“When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure.” PeoplePressureBillsTicketsFestivals Author:Flume
“People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsKindTodayYoungSocialGrowing UpGrowingFitPressureEmbraceSocial Pressure Author:Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
“Obviously, David [Shore] probably has pressure because House was such an amazing show. But I try not to go into these jobs, thinking that I have to live up to people's expectations.” PeopleThinkingTryingShowsJobsHouseExpectationsPressureShore Author:Dean Winters
“I might sound like a crazy person, but that's the way I pump myself up. You know how some people are just like 'I have to talk about it'? Sometimes I'll call my husband and we'll talk about it, sometimes I have to talk to myself in the mirror. So I start talking to myself: 'You got this. Don't think of this as Sports Illustrated, just think about this as the best swimsuit campaign you've done in your life. And just kill it and own it and don't put that pressure on yourself.'” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayPersonsSometimesDoneMightSportsSoundTalkingKnow HowCrazyHusbandPressureMirrorsCampaignsMy HusbandPumpsCrazy PersonSports IllustratedSwimsuits Author:Ashley Graham
“It felt like I was a bucket full of holes. Things kept going in but just as quickly, they'd drain out. So I had people telling me I was this and that and then I'd feel pressure to perform up to their standards, jumping through hoops so I could live up to their expectations.” PeopleFeelsFeltStandardsExpectationsPressureHolesJumpingDrainsBuckets Author:Christian Hosoi
“People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.” PeopleWayLongRealityHumanityHouseWalksClassVirtueFiguresPressureSeriesCardsContradictionHelpfulFlawsRealisticMarginsPresentingRivalryUnder PressureLarger Than LifeNetflixLong WalksLong Walk To FreedomHouse Of Cards Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.” PeopleSaidReasonShowsDoctorsPressureShow BusinessMedicationOverweight Author:Sinead O'Connor
“In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes.” PeopleI CanCommunityDifferencesResultsVotePressureElectionFavourElectorate Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland!” PeopleGivingGovernmentWould BeOrderFightingPressureChineseYieldMotherlandChinese Government Author:Andre Vltchek
“Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsPoliticalSufferingProcessEconomyVotePressureConstantUsualAssaultDisillusionmentRight To Vote Author:Annie Leonard
“As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.” PeopleDecisionFrontsGoes OnComfortablePressureLife Goes OnTrust MyselfLearning To Trust Author:Tyler Blackburn
“I cannot accept concepts such as Gülenism or Gülenist. I was only a writer and an official preacher among people. I can have no direct influence on any person or activity. It is inconceivable that I can exert pressure on anybody.” PeoplePersonsI CanAcceptingInfluenceActivityConceptsDirectPressureOfficialsPreacher Author:Fethullah Gulen
“I have kids. Unbeknownst to them, they are quick to snap me back to reality when I start feeling the pressure of being an athlete! It's a breath of fresh air to have two people to focus on; their happiness erases all the pressures I have on myself.” PeopleTwoFeelingsRealityKidsFocusAirPressureBreathsAthleteEraseSnapsFresh AirBack To Reality Author:Amanda Beard
“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.” PeopleNeedsShouldMindEnoughMotherDadPressure Author:Mila Kunis
“People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.” PeopleGamesPressureThe Love Of The Game Author:Hope Solo
“When you're young, you're not really worried too much about what people think. You're just in this beautiful, natural place with creativity, and it's just flowing through you, whereas after a few years and a few records, you have all these pressures starting to build on your back.” PeopleThinkingYearsBeautifulYoungNaturalCreativityRecordsToo MuchPressureStartingWorried Author:Trevor Hall
“Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that mean so much to people that has so much attention on it, it can be quite paralyzing I think. I think a lot of that creeped in the first time around and it maybe affects the work.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsMeanBookAttentionFirst TimePressure Author:Jamie Dornan
“I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.” PeopleThinkingFilmEasyFairsDirectPressureGenderFinanceInstanceJournalism Author:Natalie Portman
“I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.” PeoplePressureUnder PressurePhysique Author:Shawn Johnson
“I don't think we have to impose or pressure in anyway but I do think we have to engage people and try to help them to understand what the gospel even is.” PeopleThinkingTryingHelpingPressure Author:Greg Laurie
“I started going blind and my optic nerves of my eye started giving me tunnel vision. I also started fainting a bit and struggling to think. I felt a lot of pressure in my head all the time. That was when it got too much. I'm in a very, very fortunate position now where I've had it taken out once. And now it's back I'm being monitored. I think people at home should be checked for this.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldHomeEyeFeltBitsVisionStruggleTakenToo MuchPositionPressureBlindFortunateNervesTunnelsFaintingTunnel Vision Author:John Newman
“I think as of right now, we're not hiring an individual to be a series regular and be in every episode to replace her. We're dealing with what we have, and some of it has to do with, as shows get older - I'm learning this as a new to a long lasting series - you start to have maybe some budgetary pressures over time, as people's salaries go up.” PeopleThinkingLongShowsIndividualRight NowPressureSeriesLastingEpisodesSalaryHiringLong Lasting Author:Aaron Korsh
“I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.” PeopleMatterPressureIntenseAmazed Author:Zoe Leonard
“People tend to think that if someone is a movie star, that automatically everything is easier and there is less pressure. But all of them still keep that pressure on, are still inspired and still care about the work.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsCareStarsEasierPressureInspiredMovie Star Author:Garrett Clayton
“The one difference I have noted is that it's made me more tender to my students and to young people particularly. It's made me mellower. I began to have a different perspective, because I may not be around much longer to be hassled by life's pressures.” PeopleMayMadeDifferentYoungDifferencesStudentsPerspectivePressureDifferent PerspectiveI May Not Be Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I think we're at a really unique moment right now because the American people are waking up to the fact that it is a race to the bottom between these two corporate parties that are sending jobs overseas, putting downward pressure on wages, starving people out of healthcare, locking an entire generation into unpayable predatory student loan debt.” PeopleThinkingTwoMomentsFactsJobsPartyRaceGenerationsStudentsRight NowUniqueWake UpPressureBottomDebtCorporateWakingHealthcareWagesLoanStarvingPredatoryStudent Loan Author:Jill Stein
“I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.” PeopleWantedActingAudiencePlayerFrontsPerformancesPressureGratefulResponseTheatrePerformingVolleyballVolleyball Player Author:Dan Payne
“I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLittlesCareAgeTrumpPressureMajorityTake CareBunchHipsPeersPeer Pressure Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You know, there were all kinds of calls when George W. Bush left office in 2009 for the left to investigate him. [Barack] Obama and Eric Holder were under pressure to investigate and prosecute Bush. I bet most people don't remember this, but it wasn't until June 30th, 2011, that Eric Holder announced that of the more than 100 cases the Justice Department had reviewed, that there would be no charges brought in any of them.” PeopleKnowsKindWould BeRememberLeftJusticeCasesOfficePressureAll KindsBarackDepartmentJuneEricUnder Pressure Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I never did well meeting strangers, so my favorite part of partying as a couple was that I didn't need to strike up conversation from scratch. If you've ever had to go out and meet new people on your own, you would understand. It can be a bit of an awkward situation. If you're already out at a party with someone you know, it takes that pressure off.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsWellsBitsPartySituationCoupleConversationPressureMeetingsMy FavoriteStrangerStrikesAwkwardScratchesMeeting New PeopleAwkward Situations Author:Andrew W.K.
“The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created droves and droves of people that vote against what they know is right, vote against their own self-interest, in exchange for feeling good about themselves and also being immune from criticism.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensSelfFeelingsYoungLeftInterestSuccessfulCriticismVotePressureFeel GoodPsychologicalPeersEmployedSelf InterestImmunePeer Pressure Author:Rush Limbaugh
“After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure.” PeopleWorldHeartAmericaBlackMoralPressureThreatDestroyedBlack PeopleInitiativeUnclesUncle Sam Author:Malcolm X
“[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.” PeopleFirstsCharacterStoriesFilmCoursesDifficultNiceFrontsFirst TimePressureStartingRelativeTrapsPipeFireplaces Author:Rowan Atkinson
“That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.” PeopleFeelsDoneNaturalMy OwnGroupsSingingPressureHarmonyTablesDinnerNosesSmall GroupsDinner Table Author:George Michael
“I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensStarsHoursDrugPressureAlcoholism Author:Debbie Reynolds
“I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.” PeopleThinkingHelpingProblemJobsEconomicRepublicanPressureInvestingCongressAccessConvinceAgendasWagesItemsInfrastructureGood EducationAlleviateDislocation Author:Barack Obama
“I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.” PeopleKnowsMeanPlayKidsFunJokesPressureIndependentStudiosHaving FunDo You KnowCookers Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWantedWinningFeltDifferencesGrowing UpGrowingFailingChangedMinesNegativeDecidedPressure Author:Keke Palmer
“Politically, sometimes you get situations where rent control will go through. It is especially true in an emergency, where there is a sudden, sharp increase in demand for housing or a cut back in supply. People will simply not allow the marketplace to allocate housing resources and so you get pressures for rent control. Once you have it, it is hard to eliminate.” PeopleSometimesHardSituationCuttingDemandResourcesIncreasePressureEmergenciesHousingMarketplaceRent Control Author:James M. Buchanan
“If we can create a climate among people that says that any serious candidate for president, Senate, governor, [the] House is going to have to talk about income inequality, raising wages in America, trade policy - that's a huge success. It's not putting pressure on a candidate. It's mobilizing people.” PeopleIfsAmericaHousePresidentPolicySeriousHugePressureTradeClimateIncomeInequalityCandidatesSenateGovernorsWagesIncome Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.” PeopleKnowsPlayBigsDifferencesLove IsAnxietyProjectsTestsPerformancesPressureWhat You LovePerformance Anxiety Author:Viola Davis
“I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.” PeopleYearsStillsLightTodaySchoolUsedFeltSidesBlackWhiteAliveWorstPrejudicePressureCatholicWho You AreExcuseBlack PeopleLive For TodayExcuse MeElementary SchoolRacial PrejudiceCatholic SchoolWorst Times Author:Kevin michael
“Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.” PeoplePressureBullyingAcceptablePeersBullyPeer Pressure Author:Barack Obama
“Even CEOs police their own bureaucracy. Trump is not that. He does have more in common with these guys than most elected officials would have, particularly in the Obama administration. Obama didn't have anybody that'd ever worked in the private sector. All they had is a bunch of theoreticians who thought they were smarter than everybody that runs businesses in the private sector. And who knows what kind of pressure was brought to bear. Remember, Obama's agenda was one that was to be governed against the will of the people.” PeopleKnowsKindDoeRunningRememberGuyCommonBearsTrumpPressurePoliceBunchAdministrationOfficialsAgendasSmarterCeoBureaucracyPrivate SectorElected Officials Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher rates of reproduction for people capable of solving scientific problems or creating new scientific ideas. So if, in fact, the science-forming capacities evolved for other reasons, it would not be too surprising if those particular structures that have developed proved to be rather special in their nature, reflecting the contingencies of their evolution or the working of physical law.” PeopleIfsMindIdeasReasonFactsProblemLawHappenedSpecialParticularEvolutionHigherCreatingCapableCapacityPressureStructureRateSurprisingReflectingReproductionContingency Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights of women, students, young people, old people, farmers and workers. What are called "special interests" - meaning the whole population - they began to press to enter the public arena. And they said that puts too much pressure on the state and therefore we have to have more moderation in democracy and they should go back and be quiet and obedient.” PeopleShouldSaidStatesWholeYoungInterestDemocracyToo MuchRightsSpecialStudentsQuietPressurePressesWorkersPopulationVariousFarmersThey SaidModerationOld PeopleArena1960sObedientSpecial Interests Author:Noam Chomsky
“There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.” PeopleIfsSometimesReasonWholePoliticalSimpleLeaderPressureActivismLocalsInstancePushingButtonsPausesPolitical LeadersPolitical Activism Author:Rachel Maddow
“I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.” PeopleWayMayTogetherLastsRealizingInterestingEmotionTeamMonthsPressureFolksChiefsAttachmentStaffPresidencyChief Of Staff Author:Barack Obama
“The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.” PeopleIfsWorldKindIdeasStatesEnoughHelpingGovernmentStrongNationsRealizingCommunityPressureWestProtestVery StrongGlobalizationWeakeningOrganizer Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I think there's pressure on every mayor who's trying to do the right thing by their people, and that's the pressure of a capitalist society, which does not want to give up a dime. They basically want to constrain the people in every way they can.” PeopleThinkingWayWantGivingTryingDoeGiving UpPressureRight ThingCapitalistMayorsDimesConstrain Author:Chokwe Lumumba