"Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion."
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"Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure."
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"I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker."
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"I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do."
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"You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure."
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"When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects."
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"I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big."
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"First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel."
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"The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker bomb is a good guy with a slightly larger pressure cooker bomb."
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"Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours."
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"Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face."
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"I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip."
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"It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'"
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"I dont believe in pressure. Pressure doesnt affect me at all."
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"The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament."
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"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
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"Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it."
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"The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure."
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"Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom."
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"When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful."
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