PRESSURE QUOTES II

quotations about pressure

Pressure quote

Pressure can be felt like a hangman's noose.

BILLIE STRONG, JR.

"Pressure", A Book of Poems


Most of us think of pressure as situation-specific: the bottom of the ninth, taking the SATs, or giving a presentation in front of management. Yet the reality is that pressure is a daily force that infiltrates our everyday activities and builds up to the moment when everything is on the line.

HENDRIE WEISINGER & J. P. PAWLIW-FRY

Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most


Five grand a week? That's my kind of pressure.

LOU MACARI

attributed, The Book of Football Quotations


Pressure is the aggregate of all the demands made on you ... stress is your response to an inappropriate level of pressure. It is a response to pressure, not the pressure itself.

T. ARROBA & K. JAMES

attributed, Handling Stress Positively


Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

TOMMY LASORDA

"Sideline Psychology: 18 Life Lessons from the World's Greatest Coaches", Men's Health, November 2007

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Pressure is a privilege.

BILLIE JEAN KING

Pressure Is a Privilege


If we decide that we are lightweight station wagons, then we better put a load limit; and if we would keep from pressure, we must refrain from assuming a responsibility that we cannot fill.

J. DWIGHT PENTECOST

Man's Problems, God's Answers


Life's pressure is equal to your resistance.

BRYANT MCGILL

Simple Reminders


Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster!

ALEC MACKENZIE & PAT NICKERSON

The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management


She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

LORRIE MOORE

Like Life


Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

BRIAN HERBERT

House Atreides

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If you want to be a successful player, you have to learn how to handle pressure -- how to stay cool when it counts, especially in big games.

MICHAEL PARKER

Premier Soccer


And I wander alone
Without haste without hope without fear
Without pressure or touch--
There is no moan
Of Souls dying
Nothing here
But the warm
Dry airless sweet scent
Of the alleys of death
Of the corridors of death

T. S. ELIOT

"In silent corridors of death"

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In the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.

TAYLOR STEVENS

The Doll


One of the more subtle ways pressure influences our brains and behavior is by altering our thinking and distorting how we see events. Many people believe that how they see events is static--that it does not change. This couldn't be further from the truth. How we appraise a situation can and often does change. And pressure is one of the most powerful influences on our appraisal.

HENDRIE WEISINGER & J. P. PAWLIW-FRY

Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most


If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

FERRAN ADRIA

interview, Toronto Life, March 13, 2014

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Pressure comes from within and so must be mastered from within.

ED JACOBY

Winning Jumps and Pole Vault


The single most important question that we face when we are under pressure is: Do I see the situation as a crisis or a challenge?

HENDRIE WEISINGER & J. P. PAWLIW-FRY

Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most


I can feel the pressure
It's getting closer now
We're better off without you
I can feel the pressure
It's getting closer now
We're better off without you

PARAMORE

"Pressure"


Pressure is not necessarily bad. Pressure can make you produce. The challenge of pressure is learning how to handle it--which requires developing internal confidence and inner strength.

PAULA WHITE

Deal With It!