Pressure Quotes - Page 5

• It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

  James Hillman

  Motherhood, Two, Order

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

  James Hillman

  Worry, Culture, World

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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.

  Jamie Dornan

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the tone for the movies [Fifty Shades of Grey] so I felt a little more freedom this time and it probably made it more enjoyable.

  Jamie Dornan

  Fifty, Littles, Shade

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stress, Fall, Heart

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• I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

  Cillian Murphy

  Art, Elements, Literature

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Thinking, Decision

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

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• 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.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, People, Journalism

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

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• Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

  Mila Kunis

  Kids, Perfect, Trying

  "Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: 'There's Nothing We Don't Know About Each Other'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.glamour.com. July 6, 2016.

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• I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.

  Deshaun Watson

  Fun, Team, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball. The problem is the pressure you feel in a penalty shootout.

  Jurgen Klopp

  Balls, Problem, Penalties

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Jews took it very seriously to marry other Jews and repopulate the Jewish bloodline, and my father's generation gets very serious in my household when they're like, "You have to marry another Jew," because that's still kind of the mentality coming from the baby boomers. So I know that type of pressure.

  Logan Lerman

  Baby, Father, Generations

  "‘Indignation’ Stars Logan Lerman And Sarah Gadon On Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath And The Perils Of Oral Sex". Interview with David Ehrlich, www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2016.

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

  Shawn Johnson

  People, Under Pressure, Physique

  "Shawn Johnson gets more nervous watching Olympic Trials than she did competing". Interview with Maggie Hendricks, ftw.usatoday.com. July 27, 2016.

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• Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

  John Mellencamp

  80s And 90s, Labels, Records

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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• 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.

  Greg Laurie

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.

  John Dewey

  Children, Views, Might

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.

  Rachel Martin

  Home, Careers, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It’s been a dream to work with Netflix because they don’t have any pressure from advertisers.

  Bill Burr

  Dream, Netflix, Advertisers

  "Interview with comedian Bill Burr". Interview with Riley Coven, www.smudailycampus.com. September 17, 2015.

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• I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.

  Conrad Aiken

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Giving

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• I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.

  Conrad Aiken

  Thinking, Splinters, Littles

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• You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.

  Allison Maslan

  Life, Unknown Worlds, Choices

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• I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.

  George Biddell Airy

  Science, Moon, Two

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• Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

  Brendon Burchard

  Live Life, Responsibility, Desire

  Brendon Burchard (2014). “The Motivation Manifesto”, p.27, Hay House, Inc

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• It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.

  Monica Wood

  Character, Writing, Emotional

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• A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.

  Nate Oats

  Basketball, Thinking, Ncaa

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