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.

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.

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

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We’re constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren’t any better than us. I’m as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the...

The pressure is on them and we told them so.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.

At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.I...

In order to improve our life for good always remember that regardless of what anyone else says and does, we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. This is the only way to experience victory,...

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

When there is a pressure situation I want him in there more than anybody. You are always proud of a kid who rises up to a pressure situation.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

She knew there were only small joys in life–the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through–and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don’t let people give you that peer pressure.

It has gotten worse as I’m becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there’s a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.

When people pressure you to engage in negative decisions and actions, look at them boldly in the eyes and dare them to do good.

I think if you’re the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it’s a double pressure. More is expected of you.

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.