Quotes About Stress

I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that could go horribly wrong.

Once I got so worried because I had to hit my costar with a glass bottle that I began crying.

Sometimes, I wouldn't even bring my school bag home. I'd just leave it there. That's really bad, I know, but I thought, 'I am spending all day in school, I'm not going to go home and start going into books again - no way.'

I think there are definitely times when I feel the expectations on my shoulders and I think it's because even before I race people expect me to get a gold medal and it's not the case.

When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

There's a lot of things in Formula One that can stress you and it's important to have good family and good support from home as well. I'm really glad that I have that.

When you work crazy TV hours, you got to have a good sense of humor.

Probably my worst habit is, when I get really stressed out, down to the wire, and Im trying to find clothes or find something, literally anything, I throw everything everywhere, and I dont pick it up because Im in that anxious space, still.

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.

Emma Thompson and her husband, Greg Wise, have become citizens of Venice. I'm not sure whether it's just laziness, or fear of one of life's most stressful events - moving house - but you won't budge me from South London.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

I was such a worrier at school. I wish I could go back and tell myself to stop stressing.

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

I witnessed first-hand the self-defeating results of putting yourself under so much pressure to perform.

To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

It must be a nightmare for football managers' wives, putting up with us.

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectations for raising children leaves many women and men feeling as if their days are a blur of carpools and play-groups and tutors.

If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Baking is fun! I find it very therapeutic, a stress buster.

I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.