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Pressure Quotes
For when everything is riding on it.
Several of these quotes come from people who built entire careers under pressure, describing repertory theatre as training for exactly that, a feeling explored further in the feel collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
- Down
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In 1999, we went into the World Cup with a string of victories behind us but we could not handle the pressure and ended up letting ourselves down.
- Next
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Finding a release mechanism after the pressure of a Test-match week can take over, and the next game can seem as though it might as well be six months away.
- Me
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I never enter in the pitch under pressure to score goals, but I know my position requires me to score goals.
- Best
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That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.
- People
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People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
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I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under pressure.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing and aging populations are putting increased pressure on health-care systems that are already buckling under the burden of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one thing I relish, the pressure of having to try and beat the best teams in the world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
- Thrive
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- Nov 07, 2020