Quotes About Stress

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

Life is to short to worry about everything.

The perfect storm of occupational stress appears to be a combination of two factors: (1) a great deal is expected of you, and (2) you have no control over whether you will perform well.

Is jumping out of an airplane inherently stressful? The answer is no, and that highlights the subjective nature of stress. The

The four biggest reasons you'll fight Why will you fight? I mentioned four consistent sources of marital conflict in the transition to parenthood. Left to their own devices, all can profoundly influence the course of your marriage, and that makes them capable of affecting your child's developing brain. I'll call them the Four Grapes of Wrath. They are: • sleep loss • social isolation • unequal workload • depression

Stress hormones seem to have a particular liking for cells in the hippocampus, which is a problem because the hippocampus is deeply involved in many aspects of human learning.

Without a flexible, immediately available, highly regulated stress response, we would die. Remember, the brain is the world's most sophisticated survival organ. All

Control isn't the only factor in productivity. Employees on an assembly line, doing the same tired thing day after day, certainly can feel in control of their work processes. But the brain-numbing tedium can become a source of stress.

There's no such thing as a firewall between personal issues and work productivity.

using incantation as a nonchemical tranquilizer to ward off stress, and to assure yourself that everything is fine when everything is emphatically not fine, is much more problematic. In a time of crisis when keeping a level head and going on with life is crucial, it can have a valid place, but if it's being used to drown out the still small voice that warns of approaching danger, it's an invitation to disaster.

greater stress on the sacerdotal role of the clergy was part of a larger attempt to reverse the erosion, since the Reformation, of their authority over the laity.

My unique brand of depression responds to stress; specifically, it blows up under stress. When the going gets tough, I don't get amped up, I get despondent

One of the first issues I wanted to tackle was this habit of converting stress into bleak, goth-eyeliner-wearing despair.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess's room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right. I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.

He was managing everything by himself and being pulled in too many directions.

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

Henry Adams observes that John Hay has the ability to take the world as a whole rather than pulling it to pieces in criticism. He also observes that, in the routine of a stressful job, this perspective is challenged

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

People who cannot find time for recreation are sooner or later to find time for illness.

Stress results from long periods of suppression.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

William James claimed that almost all of us use only the tiniest fraction of our potential.11 Only under certain circumstances of constructive stress or in certain states—great love, for example, or religious ardor, or the courage of battle—do we begin to tap the depth and richness of our creative resources, or the tremendous reserves of life energy that lie sleeping within us.