J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied."
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Pressure
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Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball."
Billie Jean King
Tennis Player
"Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it."
Plato
Philosopher
"He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age"
Carl Bernstein
Journalist
"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."
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"I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete."
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"Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!"
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"If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure."
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"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."
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"I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not."
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"We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment."
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"Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures."
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"All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average."
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"She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all."
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"When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing."
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"Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege."
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"Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace."
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"I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent."
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"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
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"I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself."
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"You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure."
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"Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me."
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"Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity."
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"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."
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"I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti."
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