94 Working Under Pressure Quotes

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Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared. — Tony La Russa

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on. — Chuck Noll

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters. - Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters. — Billie Jean King

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. - Chuck Noll

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it. - Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it. — Billie Jean King

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. — Sebastian Coe

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. - Andrew Denton

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. — Andrew Denton

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

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

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. — Sir John Lubbock

It will not matter, the pressure I always had it, I was mediated early, I learned to handle it, I got used to it and it’s part of my environment. — Kylian Mbappe

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond. — Robert Horry

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

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products — Niklaus Wirth

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. — Dale Carnegie

Short Working Under Pressure Quotes

  • Pressure makes diamonds — George S. Patton
  • No pressure, no diamonds. — Mary Case
  • Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
  • Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
  • I love the pressure of managing Manchester United — Manuel Pellegrini
  • I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not. — Keith Miller
  • I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure. — Jimmy Page
  • Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. — Nicky Gumbel
  • Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
  • A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. — John Lubbock

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Working under pressure quote You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

Work 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

Working under pressure quote Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise

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

Working under pressure quote Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

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

Motivational Quotes

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross

Working under pressure quote Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Ryun

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi

Working under pressure quote Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle

Pressure Quotes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow. — Misha Collins

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. - Neymar

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar

Working under pressure quote If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.
If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. — Kevin Gates

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. — Rick Warren

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball. — Kendrick Lamar

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' - Grace Hopper

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' — Grace Hopper

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium. — Sigurd F. Olson

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. — Dale Carnegie

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air. — Charlotte Mason

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More Working Under Pressure Quotes

Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together. — Charles Teo

In every sport there comes a moment when a spell of bitter weeping seems like a fair recess from whatever tough work is going on. It's only the steeliest among us who can fight the urge to turn negative-who instead will make contact and redouble her efforts. Call it grace under pressure. Call it grit....call it excellence. — Susan Casey

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

We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year. — Lloyd Bridges

Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high. — Edward Hallowell

As more women have gone into the workforce, they find it harder to be a good mother and a good worker. When I go into the office, I always feel guilty. I'm thinking about the children. When I'm at home, I'm thinking about my work. So you're always under tremendous pressure. Women feel very stressed. They feel like they're working harder and harder and harder. And society is not really helping them. — Carolyn Maloney

It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved. — Seungri

The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration. — Ralph Nader

There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you. — Paul Schrader

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

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines. — Robert Barry

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile. — Steven Tyler

One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want. — Cary Fukunaga

Being able to work as part of a team is essential. You learn to give as well as receive support. I have learnt to be focused and I have carried this with me elsewhere in my life. I am also a safer driver and I am a stronger person mentally as I am constantly under pressure and have to deal with things. — Liz Halliday

Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well. — Julie King

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory. — Lei Jun

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure. — Roger Federer

I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure. — Judith Hill

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character. — Halle Berry

I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter. — Zadie Smith

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way. — Olivia Williams

My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually. — Elizabeth Kostova

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe. — Beth Ditto

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things. — Susan Sontag

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

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

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster. — Brian Tracy

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason. — Josephine Humphreys

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