Top 458 Pressures Quotes & Sayings

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

There's tons of external and internal pressures that we deal with but live for God and you'll be alright.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

We are a boutique luxury travel company that caters to elite athletes and C-suite executives who feel the same pressures and time constraints as elite athletes. Having been one, I understand the pressures and the demands on your time.

You have to be able to deal with the pressures that playing for a big club like Hibs brings and it's not for everyone.

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

We have plenty of pressures. We have the pressure to succeed to a certain level. You have peers that are doing so well, or some peers that are not doing so well and whether you like it or not you are constantly being compared to them. And of course you have the church pressures.

There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong.

It's definitely a reason I game so much: to forget about the pressures of fighting and the hardships of training and everything.

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

I'm ready to accept the pressures of captaincy.

We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside of her, just like we are in life. These pressures and circumstances shape character. Who your parents are determines your genetic make up: your skin color, your sex, your height, weight. Where you are raised does affect your worldview either positively or negatively, your accent. Your economic class affects where you go to school, what you eat, where you sleep.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

If there is one thing French Muslims want, it is to be rid of the daily pressures imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists.

New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.

Every field has its pressures and stress factors.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I never wanted to become an actress to avoid the pressures of looking good all the time.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.

I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

As a young girl, there are pressures that come with any career, but I decided when I got into this I didn't want to be perfect.

The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.

Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.

Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

I'm looking forward to the time they describe me as the former president. And, of course, there are pressures from my own party and other Sudanese parties also, and I succumb to those pressures, but I hope as soon as possible I can find an exit out of this.

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.

Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.

I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.