Pressure Quotes - Page 13

• I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.

  David Attenborough

  Jobs, Adventure, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

  Martha Beck

  School, Parent, Social Pressure

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• At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Book, Reading, Oxford

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• It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

  John Belushi

  Records, Heat, Harder

  "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi". Book by Bob Woodward, p. 209, 1984.

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• Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Children, Father

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.

  Lewis Black

  Blood, Machines, Asking

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• As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

  Chaz Bono

  Confusing, Fit, Gender

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• There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!

  Brandon Boyd

  Ocean, Moving, Our World

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• Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

  Jeff Bridges

  Film, Unusual, Enjoy

  "Jeff Bridges Interview - THE AMATEURS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 4, 2007.

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• You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

  Albert Brooks

  Cameras, Rolling, Schedules

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Wine, Beer

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

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• My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Perfect, Parent

  "Tim Burton: 'The love and life and death stuff was stewing from the start'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?

  Nicolas Cage

  Jeans, Voice, Imagination

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• I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.

  David Cameron

  Children, Believe, Mean

  "British Prime Minister David Cameron Speaks to ABC's Diane Sawyer". abcnews.go.com. July 20, 2010.

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• We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

  Eric Cantona

  Greed, Aggression, Massive

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• The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

  Eric Cantona

  Team, Thinking, Long

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• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

  Caleb Carr

  Mother, Excuse, Behavior

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• I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

  Kim Cattrall

  Believe, Expectations, Trying

  "Kim Cattrall's Aha! Moment". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. March 2003.

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• Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

  Henry Cavill

  People, Want, Ruins

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• I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Pennsylvania, Firsts

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• Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

  Brian Clough

  Dog, Should Have, World

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• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  J. Cole

  Thinking, Not Good Enough, Made

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• Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

  Gail Collins

  Thinking, America, Issues

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• When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  People, Producers, Initials

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• In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Party, Your Side

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