Quotes About Stress

Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.

Our system requires a continuous supply of highly capable people who are so disgruntled with their jobs that they are willing to chew off their own arms to escape their bosses.

Exposure to horrible and frightening thoughts can elevate your stress, which releases cortisol. The Mayo Clinic website explains that cortisol "curbs functions that would be nonessential or detrimental in a fight-or-flight situation. It alters immune system responses and suppresses the digestive system, the reproductive system and growth processes. This complex natural alarm system also communicates with regions of your brain that control mood, motivation and fear.

To live a good life is not to live free of troubles, but to live free of needless worry.

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. 2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people. 6For among them

It's just been a long week, that's all. It's monday night, Jess. My point exactly.

as an organization, you incur capability debt, because people (managers and technical staff) can't improve their capabilities when they're overburdened with too much work to do.

No, but I feel as if a big stone is pressing me here.

the daily life of city dwellers today is technically a form of mild but persistent torture, in which victims and victimisers are equally affected. And all call it 'progress'.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

seminary students in a rush were far less likely to help a stranger than were seminary students who weren't late, in the experiment performed by John M. Darley and Dan Batson).

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.

If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.

Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.