If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It’s as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking...

If you want to take something more seriously, do it publicly. Publishing an article pressures you to think clearly. Competing in a race pressures you to train consistently. Presenting on any topic pressures you to...

Everything negative—pressure, challenges—is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.

He told me about the pressure, but he said I wouldn’t really understand it until I got there and went through it. Now, I see what he was talking about.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

I don’t know where this pressure came from. I can’t blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt...

The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

I’ve been trying to stay real and true and proud of who I am,all those ideals of how to lookI’ve been trying not to care.But I’m still holding my breath, I ‘m still watching every...

Don’t panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

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.

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there’s a lot of pressure.

And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no...

Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It’s a kids’ classic. Tell him I’ll quiz him on it when I’m back next week and that he doesn’t have to like it or anything, but if he doesn’t, tell...

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

Look what pressure(cooker) does to Rice. It makes the hard and tough rice go soft.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you’re doing.

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the “right” pressure.

How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.” -Mehul.M

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

It’s weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It’s a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.But this...

What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.

Last year, there was a little more pressure. We’re more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four.

If any woman opens her legs for you, don’t feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a long time, and now its your own turn to get a...

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever – check the tire pressure.

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.

You weren’t born to be a product of societal and peer pressures. However, you have to first understand that your presence on earth matters, because your life has a very unique purpose. Therefore, be comfortable...

Occasionally, I’ll direct if there’s something I feel strongly about. Having done it has whetted my appetite to do it again, but I don’t feel an internal pressure to direct. It certainly will make me...

My parents think I’m better under pressure.

In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases which appeared in the public domain, memory itself was always a false trail...

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as ‘the brilliant one’ but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

I couldn’t imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but...

Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance.

Our pressure got to them in the second quarter.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

We’re still short because, we’ve got a lot of refineries out so there’s still some upward pressure there, but I think as things get back on stream hopefully we can get back to a better...

The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic...

I can’t work well when I am under stress. It reduces me to normalcy. Stress is my kryptonite. And I usually don’t change in phone booths, though I do take long distance showers there.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar with the scare that revelation brings to the survivor. […]We are in this...

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.