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“You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.”

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Author:Roger Ailes

“I do really well under pressure.”

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Author:Molly Sims

“I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.”

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Author:Aisha Tyler

“The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.”

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Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.”

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Author:Stewart Cink

“I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.”

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Author:Tony Parker

“Pressure to me now has become almost part of my life. It doesn't really affect me anymore. People talk about me being under pressure or having pressure of having to come in and be this great player that everyone expects me to be right away. It doesn't really faze me. It's become second nature now. It's almost like it would be weird not to have it.”

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Author:Reggie Bush

“I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all.”

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Author:Landon Donovan

“Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.”

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Author:Chris Bosh

“Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.”

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?”

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Author:Robert Holden

“Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.”

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Author:Seth Klarman

“It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.”

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Author:Peggy Fleming

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

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Author:John F. Kerry

“I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.”

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Author:Steven Tyler

“My parents think I'm better under pressure.”

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Author:Tori Amos

“I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure.”

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Author:Cillian Murphy

“Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.”

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Author:Mia Wasikowska

“I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.”

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Author:James Hunter

“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.”

“I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.”

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Author:Bassem Youssef

“I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.”

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Author:Robert Barry

“I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.”

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Author:Shawn Johnson

“There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.”

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Author:Paul Schrader

“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.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“In April [1972], after that fine business in Dacca, Yahya Khan sent for me. He looked satisfied, sure of himself, by now convinced he had the situation in hand. He offered me a drink. "Well, you politicians are really finished," he said. Then he said that not only Mujib but I too was considered an agitator, I too was preaching against the unity of Pakistan. "I'm always under pressure to arrest you, Bhutto" I got so angry I lost all control.”

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Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“Trump will have to take up juggling if he goes ahead and scraps the agreement with Iran and at the same time, seeks to avoid alienating Russia, and quite possibly France and Germany. These European countries are already nervous about what the Trump presidency means with respect to the future of the post-World War II international order that has essentially kept the peace on the continent since 1945. This order is far from perfect, of course, and under pressure from other sources, especially due to the rise of chauvinism and European Trumpism.”

“In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he reduce their stock value with an angry tweet.”

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Author:David Frum

“Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.”

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Author:Imran Khan

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

Source: Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949

“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”

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Author:Michelangelo

“When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.”

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Author:Gordon Ramsay

“If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.”

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Author:Joe Rogan

“The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.”

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Author:Ken Venturi

“As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.”

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Author:J. C. Watts

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

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Author:Michael Chabon

“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”

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Book:On War

Source: On War

“No pressure, no diamonds.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.”

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Author:Sophie Kinsella

“I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.”

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Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'”

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Author:Vanilla Ice

“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.”

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Author:Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.”

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Author:Jerry Pate

“The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.”

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Author:Mark Messier

“The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But the unyielding will of the soldier and the dedication of professional military leaders will not change. Our soldiers can do a great deal more under pressure than people think. You'd have to see them perform in combat to believe it.”

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Author:George W. Dunaway

“Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.”

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Author:Curtis Strange