Quotes About Stress

So, the idea of being a star on MTV and all that never really appealed to me. It makes life hectic.

We all know what this business can do to you... you end up walking on your heels.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

I'm always saying to myself, there aren't enough hours in the day, which I think any working mum says to herself.

I drive everybody crazy when I go into hiding to record... managers, the label, everybody!

Emotions run high when you have a bad day; you can't hide it.

Well, I don't know one coach in the NBA who doesn't have high blood pressure.

I can't deal with high maintenance chicks.

With high-profile jobs, comes pressure and competition.

Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.

Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females.

I'm highly anxious, ambitious, and very hard on myself.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact thjat in times of stress educated people tend to come to the front; they are no more gifted than the others and their education is generally quite useless in itself, but they are accustomed to a certain amount of deference and consequently have the cheek necessary to a commander.

It had driven into her a far deeper understanding than she had had before of the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: Thou shalt not lose thy job.

It's curious how it gets you down to have a sticky neck.

if I were permitted to be well fed and not worried, that alone would enable me to pay faster.

Good God, but life could be less than easy, not that he was unaware that it could certainly be a lot worse, but to go about in such a state, pulse high, face red, worried sick that someone would notice how nervous one was, was certainly less than ideal, and he felt sure that his body was secreting all kinds of harmful chemicals and that the more he worried about the harmful chemicals the faster they were pouring out of wherever it was they came from.

To solve political problems becomes difficult for those who allow anxiety alone to pose them.

Inversement, le propre de la maladie c'est d'être une réduction de la marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu. Cette réduction consiste à ne pouvoir vivre que dans un autre milieu et non pas seulement parmi quelques-unes des parties de l'ancien. Au fond l'anxiété populaire devant les complications des maladies ne traduit que cette expérience.

he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by his genius for persuading himself that any disagreeable necessity forced upon him by his own folly, or his son's overriding will, was the outcome of his own choice and wise decision.

He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.