Pressured Quotations

'What is your desired salary?' The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first loses. When you interview, you should never feel pressured to answer this question. Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.'

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

We stood around a lot on offense in the last game. Their defense really shut us down. They pressured us the way that we want to pressure other teams, so we have to attack that pressure and make them pay for it.

We started great. Our guys understood what was coming and handled it well. But being pressured over time has an impact. You have to take great care of the ball against that system.

We find it ironic that we were kind of pressured to release these slots, and now they're apparently not useful to them (American) anymore. The marketplace changes so rapidly, almost on a daily basis, so I'm not entirely surprised. No one should be.

We're going to look at the Elections Enforcement Commission, how they operated, what they did with the governor's campaign and that may open facts and information beyond just the Elections Enforcement Commission ? issues such as were they pressured into making a settlement agreement.

We know if we are beat, somebody's going to be back there. In the past, it wasn't like that. If you pressured up on somebody and you got beat, you were getting dunked on. This year, we're helping each other out.

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

We want to tell people you may be pressured at these meetings, you may be told that you'll get your money back and that may not happen. Why give your money before you even know what the program is?

The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.

On a positive note, our services business continued to overtake the Y2K pause that pressured the first half of the year, ... Our PC business rebounded strongly, with particularly good demand for our server and ThinkPad products. In addition, our business in Asia continued to grow strongly.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses, ... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

I was right there. He made a great shot. I pressured him, but he made a great pull-up.

I anticipated (playing man defense) was what they were going to do. They really come out and pressured us on the perimeter and we could not find our posts.

I can tell you, however, that the committee has yet to hear from any intelligence official expressing such concerns, ... If any officials believe, however, that they have been pressured to alter their assessment, they have an obligation, and I encourage them to contact the committee.

If any retailers are feeling pressured or squeezed in any way, we want to know about that. We will act upon it.

I expected what they gave me. They really just pressured the ball and played really physical against me.

Ignite just held our first annual National Day of Action, on which, for the first time, students all across the country simultaneously pressured politicians to stop looking the other way.

He did not lie. The only reason he said what was on those tapes is he was pressured to do so. He would embellish because it got to a point he would do and say whatever the FBI wanted him to do and say.

He just needs to calm down a little bit. He wants to make a play so bad sometimes. A couple of times, he got pressured and tried to get the ball out quickly. But with guys on your back, it's hard to do that. He needs to stay composed like the player he is.

Greenspan's focus on inflation definitely pressured the market. It was definitely a speech on higher prices and about core inflation turning the corner.

Journalists say your government has pressured printing houses not to print many independent newspapers.

I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.

I think you have to credit their defense in the first half. They really pressured Nicole (Powell) and I and didn't want to let us even catch the ball. And when we came off screens, they were right there.

I thought we played really hard. Highland got after us defensively and pressured us. We made some mistakes with the ball and they were able to capitalize off of that.

I think that the smaller the social group a person belongs to, the more likely they are to feel pressured to conform. For example, I think high school creates a worse environment than most colleges for generating poor body images in most girls.

I think Tennessee's defense played very well tonight. They covered us. They pressured us. They did everything they were supposed to do. They played a great game, and we just couldn't finish them.

I think Tennessee's defense played very well tonight, ... They covered us. They pressured us. They did everything they were supposed to do. They played a great game, and we just couldn't finish them.

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where purchasers have more choices and less time than ever before. Selectively investing in high-value customers empowers organizations to boost revenues, reduce operational costs, and to increase customer retention/acquisition rates.

It doesn't matter who you are, you have the right to make your own decision. You shouldn't be pressured to play because you're the best. . . . If he's going there with only one leg to skate, it's tough for him to have that pressure to play.

I thought it was two teams playing really hard. I thought Oklahoma State played really tough and it rebounded well and pressured us out of what we wanted to do. We kind of did the same to them for awhile.

I thought it was okay, pretty good. We pressured a lot from different places. As far as a straight four-man rush, in passing situations, it's hard to gauge that right now. We'll have to see.

I was pleased that we came out ready to play. We played well together and played with a lot of intensity. We pressured them really hard early and got some turnovers to get that good lead at the beginning of the game.

We just went out and pressured everything. We played as hard as we have all year. We just came up a little bit short.

We have our hands full on Sunday. We just have to get our spirits back and we have to learn how to fight. We don't fight. With the three teams that have pressured us, we did not fight. We've got to learn to handle the pressure and we can't make mistakes.

We have tackled pretty well and pressured the football.

We don't feel particularly pressured to do anything at any particular spot. Like with anything else, if we can find somebody that adds a little something to our team, that's the direction we'll go. You never know what position that might be.

We dominated and pressured in the second half, keeping possession and only allowing four of five scoring opportunities to Amador.

We don't take anyone for granted. We just pressured a little more. Listen, we knew it was going to be a dog fight and Barlow was going to be hungry. There's always that revenge factor when you play a team again after getting beaten by a lot.

We're a lot better than we were when we played them in December. We did more things right than we did wrong tonight. We found that if we got out and pressured them we could force them into some mistakes and I think we forced them into some bad shots.

We can't be pressured into a situation where the Saints are the only concern that we have, ... If you have to identify the five most important things to rebuilding the region, would an NFL team be one of them? Considering the magnitude of the problem that everybody across the state faces, they just aren't that important. The Saints can't dictate what we do with the Dome.

We had a little trouble with their big kid, so we overcompensated and sent too many guys down low, which gave them some open looks. We made an adjustment in the second half, stayed home and pressured the ball.

We came out flat with no intensity, and Barton took advantage of it early. They pressured us, and when they went to their bench they kept the pressure up throughout the game. We just didn't respond.

We came out and pressured in the fourth quarter pretty well, but it's not the kind of pressure we can sustain for four quarters. I think we finally decided in the fourth quarter that the ball did fit in the basket. It took us a long time to figure that out.

We hadn't faced a lot of teams that pressured us and picked us up at half court.

We were getting shots. We just couldn't finish. They came out and pressured us and did a good job of taking our post play away.

Trinity pressured us with man-to-man defense the entire game. And then two of our players fouled out.

We came out there, pressured them and made some shots.

We haven't been pressured like that in a long time and we just didn't execute like we wanted to. We better learn from this or we won't win another ballgame this season.

The pressure on young working women to succeed totally in every aspect of their lives and be totally devoted to their children - the pressure is unimaginable. You don't have to imagine it - you live it. Young women today feel pressured to be perfect. ... essential issue.

Unfortunately, we never won the suit and the union was disbanded the following year after the owners pressured numerous star players.

You didn't look like you were very pressured to me.

We are playing really well now. Our three-quarter-court, man-to-man defense really pressured them.

We did what we needed to do. Zumwalt West really came at us, especially in that first half. Our girls really felt pressured for the first time this season, and I thought we responded fairly well.... I thought we worked hard and got a win against a good opponent.

We played with poise today. They pressured us but we handled it down the stretch. We've lost some close games and I was worried that would bother us today. But I never saw any doubt in our players' eyes.

We pressured them, and they weren't comfortable in their offense. That forced a lot of missed shots and got some easy baskets for us.

We pressured the ball, we got into the passing lanes and we forced everything to the baseline. We were great defensively, and that's really all we worried about. We really weren't worried about our offense. We just wanted to come out and make a statement on the defensive end.

We pressured the ball real well and kept it down on their end, and (we) moved off the ball real well I thought. Then if they did win it (the ball) we put a lot of pressure on them early, which we talked about, to try to keep it down there on their end. I thought we did real well.

We pressured a little bit in the first half. But we really backed off in the second half.

We didn't protect the ball very good. They pressured the ball real hard.

I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

We had some miscommunication on their first goal but other than that I thought we made some plays but just couldn't finish anything off. They pressured us in our own end and we had trouble breaking out and getting anything set up on offense. But credit to them. They're a great skating team.

Wal-Mart is a more mature company today and is showing its willingness to be more open with the press, ... From investors' point of view, this is very good news. All the negative publicity has pressured the stock. Maybe this move will help take away some of that 'headline' risk acting on the stock.

We stayed in man and pressured May, we just made sure we kept her on the outside.

The credit goes to the defensive line, ... They pressured him all night, and he was constantly throwing off balance. It made our job easier in the backfield.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

We knew we had to keep coming. We didn't hold back and we pressured them hard.

Tyson Foods is currently experiencing extremely difficult industry dynamics in two of its largest businesses, poultry and beef. This has severely pressured sales and profit margins and has caused Tyson Foods' credit ratings to deteriorate.

We run an aggressive track. We pressured the ball very well. It made for some easy fast breaks.

We saw a similar dip in overall satisfaction, search and ordering process last year, so this isn't a surprise. As we approach the holiday shipping deadline, pressured online shoppers are having a tougher time of finding the products they want and ordering the merchandise in time.

We keep asking ourselves what we could have done differently to have avoided this kind of result, ... Argentina always pressured and sought ways to win just as it did through the tourney. Unfortunately, what happened is what happened.

We didn't handle that very well. They pressured us and made us rush, especially early. That's why our shooting percentage was so low. We were rushing shots. We turned the ball over we didn't play with a lot of composure and we dug ourselves a hole. Defensively they did a nice job on us and took us out of our game.

When you feel pressured and pushed, when you feel not respected, when you feel tension at work, when you feel the work that you do isn't of real value, that leads to overwork. Sizable portions of the U.S. work forces have these feelings.

While the line is still pressured up, until the pumps start up, there's no way to move the product.

We've had a decided turn from flights of fantasy to a return to reality in terms of valuations, ... They are pressured by high price-to-earnings ratios and ongoing (interest) rate hike concerns.

We got an A-plus. We came out and did what we wanted to do. We controlled the game, even though they pressured us a lot and tried to get us out of our game. We were able to do what we do. This is a big win for us, and it proves a lot to us and our fans.

We gave them 29 points off our turnovers, 27 second-chance points and 25 free throws. When they made a run at us and pressured us, we didn't have much poise.

We weren't the prettiest -- Illinois really pressured us and it bothered us some -- but the defense we played and the job we did, I can't say enough.

You have to give them credit. They pressured us a lot more and didn't allow us to do what we wanted to do, use our forwards and go from the inside out.

We had them on the ropes, and you could feel them losing confidence. We pressured them out of their offense, and they were getting rushed. We were just able to capitalize.

We got out and pressured their guards and forced a lot of turnovers, which led to easy baskets. It was a good effort to hold them to 12 points.

You go through every single inch of the emotional spectrum on fight week. You're the most stressed out you've ever been, you're the most pressured you've ever been, you're the happiest you've ever been - it's hard. It's exhausting.

We did a good job of taking some things away. We took them out of their offense and pressured them. I thought we really started strong.

We didn't let them have any easy looks. We pressured the ball on the perimeter. Everything they got, they earned because of that pressure.

Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

Cosmetic surgery is more negatively viewed by Americans because it is threatening to become so commonplace. People feel pressured to look a certain way if everyone you know who is 50 is having surgery to look 40.

Earl came in and changed the game. He has the speed and the ability to push the ball after makes and misses. He pressured full court and did all the things that you want your point guard to do.

The United States is much further along because its financial crisis struck three years before Europe's, in 2008, causing headwinds that have pressured it ever since.

The suddenness of the change made us think they were pressured by the industry to make this change.

Sometimes the idea of a blitz can be almost as good as the blitz itself. We pressured Bledsoe on seven of the first 10 snaps. I knew Bill Parcells was going to over-commit to protecting his quarterback, and leave more people in to block. So we started showing pressure and not bringing it, making the quarterback feel by the way we lined up, 'Here they come.' And then we'd drop back, and he'd wind up getting upset and throwing the ball away.

Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.

Pressured by Japanese politicians and officials, the BOJ will be unable to end its easing of the money supply any time soon. That's pretty much yen negative.

Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.

Officials should have realized that the poor were not going to be able to evacuate the way everybody evacuated and some special provisions should have involved community leaders, ... People in those poor, black communities in New Orleans don't trust the government very much. If pastors, doctors and other trusted leaders had been involved, they would have pressured for a plan for people who rely on public transportation.

Once we got the ball up the floor we were OK. But they really pressured our guards in a big way. It's a good lesson for us. Hopefully, we'll learn something from it.