Under Pressure Quotes - Page 7

• For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.

  Albert Brooks

  Running, People, Pressure

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• What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

  Debi Thomas

  Success, Sports, Determination

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• I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

  Wesley Snipes

  Careers, Theatre, Pressure

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• Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Motivational, Athlete, Body

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

  Mark Messier

  Inspirational, Stress, Hockey

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

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Athlete

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• The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.

  Paul McCartney

  Choices, Empowering, Important

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• Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

  Rebecca Wells

  Depression, People, Earth

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Courage, Grace, May

  "Freedom from Fear". Aung San Suu Kyi's Acceptance Speech for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 1, 1990.

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• From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Space, Pressure

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• Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Pressure, Faster

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2014

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• Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

  Louis C. K.

  Comedian, Get Better, Hey

  "Louis C.K. Talks LOUIE Season 3, Writing, Directing and Starring in Every Episode, Having Jerry Seinfeld and Robin Williams Guest Star and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2012.

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