Quotes of: Peer-pressure Keyword

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Noam Chomsky

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

Akshay Kumar

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Stanley R. Jaffe

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.

Ben Bernanke

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

Kim Raver

Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.

Maureen Chiquet

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

Richard Hammond

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Nicholas Stern

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

Kazuo Ishiguro

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

Lorrie Moore

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

Wavy Gravy

I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.

Iwan Rheon

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

Eric Shanteau

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

Carre Otis

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

Brian O'Driscoll

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

Chadwick Boseman

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

Judith Martin

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Joe Strummer