The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.
You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.
You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
It helps to have someone in the same boat as you. . . There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed.
It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
I want to live faster, faster, faster!. . . I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?
When people say, "Show your face, you're not ugly. " I want to say, "I know. I'm not doing it because I think I'm ugly; I'm trying to have some control over my image. And I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also I'd like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on ten pounds or I have a hair extension out of place. " Most people don't have to be under that pressure, and I'd like to be one of them. I don't go on Twitter. Because when people say things like, I don't know, "I hope you get cancer and die," it hurts my feelings.
The worst pressure is the pressure I put on myself.
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.
In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.
It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.
To foster creativity, I think a little pressure can be good, but stress isn't good. Knowing that you have a defined window of time and you're going to dedicate your attention to it is a positive - but you can't think of it as needing a track that's going to change your life.
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.
There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.
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 minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.