#pressure

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen? ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#appearing #being #failure #feel #happen

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

— Alastair Campbell

#get #greater #late #pressures #right

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#friends #good #interests #must #needs

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#deal #great #great deal #handle #loads

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#avenue #end #first #going #how

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#abstinence #condoms #deal #deaths #deny

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves. ↗

— Brian Clough

#cos #dog #entire #entire world #good

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#blood pressure #born #condition #first #genetic

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#being mean #dealt #each #everyone #fourth

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#am #asking #certainly #close #conform