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
Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. — Nicky Gumbel
Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it. — Billie Jean King
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best. — Benjamin Carson
Short Under Pressure Quotes
Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond. — Robert Horry
I love the pressure of managing Manchester United — Manuel Pellegrini
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records — Shiv Khera
All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. — Sebastian Coe
Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success? — Robert Holden
I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not. — Keith Miller
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
We try not to let pressure get into our heads and play the way we usually do. — Kylian Mbappe
Top 10 Under Pressure Quotes
We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984. — Thurgood Marshall
To me what separates really good players from great players – executive well under pressure. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. — Robert Englund
I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure. — Estelle Morris
Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress. — Bill Russell
The best fighters are those who are calm under pressure and improvise when needed. — Joe Rogan
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. — George Will
Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever. — Gary Chapman
Under Pressure Image Quotes
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you too.
Grace Under Pressure Quotes
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. — Ernest Hemingway
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure. — Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point. — Lynn G. Robbins
Courage is grace under pressure.
It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more. — Peggy Fleming
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure. — John F. Kerry
Working Under Pressure Quotes
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress — Irving Janis
Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure. — Isobel Miller Kuhn
What helped me was working with my breathing, specifically, using my breathing to stay sharp and focused under pressure and then cool and calm when the pressure was relieved. — Glen Hanlon
Get tough: don't work under pressure; work over pressure. — Brian Celio
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy. — Winston Graham
It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise. — David Talbot
You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. — Denis Johnson
I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure. — Cameron Diaz
I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute. — James Hunter
I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. — Jayson Blair
Diamond Under Pressure Quotes
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt. — T. D. Jakes
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. — Henry A. Kissinger
A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure. — Unknown
I've always believed that - it's stupid, but I always use this - the pressure makes the diamonds. I really do believe that. The more pressure I'm put under, the more, it seems, I thrive. The more you give me to do and the more you give me to accomplish, the more I can get done for you. — Ryan Guzman
Performance Under Pressure Quotes
I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure. — Aaron Rodgers
I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure. — Paige VanZant
Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him. — Bill Walsh
Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand — Lanny Bassham
I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football. — Jerry Rice
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
When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch. — Ken Jennings
Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed. — Randy West
As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure. — J. C. Watts
We are a Russian group and we want to change the situation in Russia. We criticize our own government and it would be strange if we did that from abroad. We don't need performances in the West to put Putin's regime under pressure. The punishments against us have shown us that we succeeded. — Yekaterina Samutsevich
Success Under Pressure Quotes
The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful. — Bill Russell
To be successful you have to deal with CRAP. Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure. — Ryan Blair
What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness. — Debi Thomas
I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful. — Kenny Dalglish
Being Under Pressure Quotes
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage. — Alain LeRoy Locke
Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time. — Jocko Willink
I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself. — Tony Parker
At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure. — Albert Speer
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell
Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white. — Eric Liu
Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral. — Henry Ford
I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love to play soccer-whether it's in a game, practice or playing with friends-so it isn't like I'm under pressure at all. — Landon Donovan
Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed. — Seth Klarman
When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be. — Arnold Palmer
Under Stress Quotes
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. — Marcel Proust
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood — John Gray
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing — A. A. Milne
Stress is the only condition under which your body and mind will ever perform miracles. — Andrew Tate
The key to winning is poise under stress. — Paul Brown
Once you learn to remain calm under the stressful circumstances of a fight, you will have no trouble remaining calm under the stressful circumstances of life. — Ryron Gracie
Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall — Paolo Nutini
When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience. — Kelly McGonigal
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. — William Carlos Williams
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase. — Paul Stamets
The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration. — Fidel Castro
I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts. — John Bevere
Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical - I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear. — Roger Federer
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
Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end. — Anthony Holden
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. — Chadwick Boseman
When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it. — Magic Johnson
Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable. — Carlos Castaneda
I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do. — Shaun White
Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. — Titian
You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire. — Roger Ailes
Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself. — Gretel Ehrlich
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever. — Shimon Peres
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure. — B. H. Liddell Hart
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. — Peter Singer
True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part. — Mindy Kaling
Sodas use “caramel coloring” to give them that dark, delicious look. Not to be confused with real caramel, caramel color is the single most used food coloring in the world. It is created by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure-a process that produces a cancerous substance called 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI). — Vani Hari
...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress. — James Madison
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God. — Evelyn Underhill
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure. — Joshua Waitzkin
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