There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself
If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
When I'm writing my album, it's totally my world. Even though it's myself and another producer creating the project, Conceptually it's more under my power and on my own terms. At the same time, it's a different type of pressure because I'm ultimately speaking, I'm solely responsible for the end result.
The thing about this band is that every member of the band is a song-writer so that takes some of the pressure off.
Pressure is a privilege. . . it's what you do with it that matters.
There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality cannot come naturally to many women: I think that widespread heterosexuality among women is a highly artificial product of the patriarchy. . . . I think that most women have to be coerced into heterosexuality.
I put the most pressure on myself. I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.
When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in Lebanon, I don't write much because I'm surrounded by family. I feel immersed, or enmeshed, in too many currents. I love that, but it's not conducive to writing. In San Francisco, nothing interferes with me but my cats.
. . . Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.
I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders.
When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.
Luckily, I'm setting records without even thinking about it, without having the pressure of having to do as well as the person who came before me. It's more like, "Yeah, I'm doing my thing and what happens, happens," and fortunately those have been some pretty amazing results.
It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.
When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.