Quotes About Stress

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Plans were for adventurers. He preferred the goblin approach. Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.

I closed my eyes, feeling the tug of the books. This was my refuge, my fortress of solitude. Standing in this quiet cave, surrounded by walls of books, was normally enough to ease my mind no matter how stressful things got . . . but not today. Today the books called to me. Every one was a gateway to magic, waiting to be unlocked.

Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.

You worry too much. Take a shower and get some sleep. You'll feel much better later.' She was precious, my wife. If she couldn't screw it or spend it, she'd sleep on it. And either way, wasn't it better than worrying?

THE POWER OF FULL ENGAGEMENT Old Paradigm New Paradigm Manage time Manage energy Avoid stress Seek stress Life is a marathon Life is a series of sprints Downtime is wasted time Downtime is productive time Rewards fuel performance Self-discipline rules Purpose fuels performance Rituals rule

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels.

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels. Doing so literally causes microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. At the end of a training session, functional capacity is diminished. But give the muscle twenty-four to forty-eight hours to recover and it grows stronger and better able to handle the next stimulus.

relying on junk food for bursts of energy; smoking or drinking to manage anxiety; furiously multitasking to meet demands; setting aside more challenging, long-term projects in favor of what feels immediately pressing and easier to accomplish, and devoting little energy to personal relationships. The costs of these choices and many others only show up over time.

Overwork is this decade's cocaine, the problem without a name," says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction.

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth.

We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.

Lastly, the two principal reasons behind most gun violence—stress due to poverty intensified by alcohol consumption—are largely ignored by the corporate mass media.

Her [Valerie Landry's] mentor in med school had reminded her more than once that doctors got even less time than families had to deal with patients dying. Someone died and the relatives went off by themselves and collapsed, but you still had the rest of your shift to get through.

Stress is essential to leadership. Living with stress, knowing how to handle pressure, is necessary for survival. It is related to man's ability to wrest control of his own destiny from the circumstances that surround him or, if you like, to prevail over technology.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.

Wait a minute!" I shouted, "Magic is never one-sided!" Stieglitz barked in agreement. There was always a way to weasel out, everyone knew that. True, it was usually a weird way, like giving your firstborn child to a gnarled dwarf, but heroines under stress promise all kinds of things. Alice got out of Wonderland, didn't she? Sleeping Beauty woke up. I wouldn't give up without a fight!

Rather than increasing stress by decreasing the time available for other work, volunteering is a proven way to reduce stress because it reduces the tendency to self-absorption.

A joke a day may not keep the doctor away, but there is good scientific evidence that laughter actually brings forth the relaxation response.

Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.

I'm tired of dealing with crazies. When did it become my job to manage your mental illness?

If I was married with ten kids, I wouldn't be talking on the phone with you. I'd be shooting myself in the fucking head.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?