All Quotes

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

Pressure brings out the best in me. It's the only way to keep improving: putting a bit of pressure on yourself.
‐‐ Adolfo Cambiaso

Pressure can be good. It helps you to see what you're all about.
‐‐ Tim Howard

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
‐‐ Graham Hawkes

'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

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.
‐‐ Nico Rosberg

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
‐‐ Jennifer Lynch

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

Pressure is part and parcel of our career.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
‐‐ Lee Trevino

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.
‐‐ Chuck Noll

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
‐‐ Lee Trevino

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.
‐‐ Joe Namath

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.
‐‐ Ron Moody

Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
‐‐ Vash Young

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
‐‐ C. Wright Mills

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
‐‐ Clara Mamet

Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it.
‐‐ Scott Turow

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
‐‐ Benjamin Banneker

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
‐‐ Levi Woodbury

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.
‐‐ Joe Biden

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
‐‐ Lorraine Toussaint

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
‐‐ Sun Tzu

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
‐‐ Mary Kay Ash

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.
‐‐ Mike Yaconelli

Pretending that the fashion industry isn't in part based on leather would be quite stupid of me, but at the same time, there is another way of doing things - even outside of leather. I don't use PVC either, for example, because it is harmful.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.
‐‐ Michael Musto

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
‐‐ John Hurt

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
‐‐ Carlo Goldoni

'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!'
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they're in the race. They want to win here, and that's what I want to do.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

Pretty girls have problems too.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.
‐‐ Luke Pasqualino

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
‐‐ Zendaya

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.
‐‐ Peter Forsberg