Quotes About Stress

Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

We're all busy, all the time.' He's raising his voice. 'People think it's all [A.I.'d] now and I sit in my workspace all day reading books and jerking off but it all just makes more work. Everything that was meant to lighten the load makes more work, it just makes more shit for you to deal with.

Some forms of success are indistinguishable from panic.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

The need for such cathartic relief derives from the fact that even the best of organizations generate "toxins"—frustrations with the boss, tensions over missed targets, destructive competition with peers, scarce resources, exhaustion from overwork, and so on (Frost, 2003; Goldman, 2008).

To live, for him, has no meaning other than to drive oneself, to act with all one's strength. An existence without stress, without struggle, without growth has always struck him as mindless. Those who remain on the sidelines he sees as cowards, and consequently his personal enemies.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

I think the evil is in the food, in the noise, in the crowding, in the stress, in the water, in the air.

Industrial Tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of those urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Let the train take the strain.

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done.

And though she's not really illThere's a little yellow pillShe goes running for the shelterOf a mother's little helperAnd it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day.

Life in the fast laneSurely make you lose your mind.

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear.

I was reading this really interesting article in the American Psychiatric Journal.... research shows that going to church actually boosts your immune system, decreases your blood pressure, and reduces stress. It's kind of like an antioxidant from God.