#pressure

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

— Peter Shilton

#between #business #fitness #involved #pressures

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. ↗

— Clare Short

#aid #bear #brought #enormous #enormous pressure

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy. ↗

— Paul Simon

#any #describe #emotional #fans #feel

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

— Wesley Snipes

#career #come #i #out #pressure

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids. ↗

— Hope Solo

#especially #fun #hate #have fun #i

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#after #been #highly #i #i think

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#asia #being #coming #competition #enter

At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well. ↗

— Mats Sundin

#lot #perform #player #pressure #put

I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else. ↗

— Mats Sundin

#else #i #lot #more #myself