Quotes About Stress

It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think I'm going to puke.

Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his Avoid at All Costs list right under untimely death and a desk job.

Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.

In our Type A culture, people frequently equate verbosity with control and success.

Complicating matters even further, on a day-to-day basis, in the same individual, the sensory sensitivities can change, especially when the person is tired or stressed. These

She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.

You're running out of tomorrows." Running out of tomorrows, I repeated to myself in my room, sprawling across my bed to begin another midnight marathon of homework. Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

Expectations. They ruled my life. -Ch.14

Panic is a bad judge.

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

The needs and companionship of a bird provide a reason to get up in the morning. The value of this cannot be overestimated for older bird owners and single people who are on their own. Birds provide all the benefits of the humananimal bond, including lower blood pressure and reduced levels of stress.

It was a day like a thousand others, she said. It had begun with caffeine and ended in a desire to slam her head into the drawer of her desk.

time has become a currency, which we "spend" instead of "pass." Many of us need to relax, to unwind, and, yes, to work less.2

Where I work at the auto plant, the workers are just dropping like flies. When there's a lot of work because of a new model coming out, they make people work 10 and 12 hours every day, 6 days a week. Lots of people, even the younger ones, are developing high blood pressure, having accidents on the job, or car accidents on the way to and from work, or other serious health problems. But they have to do it. If you don't like it, you can just quit.44

Nada de perros aquí! ¡Ya tengo bastante con ustedes!

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I'm happier with things. I understand stuff like tensile strength, shearing force, ductility, work hardening, stress, fatigue. I know the same sort of things happen with people, but the rules are subtly different. And nobody's ever paid for my time to get to know about people

periodic bouts of depression. Some of these episodes were brought on by his family's

That she was now more tired and forgetful, while able to do three times what she had been able to do when she was somewhat less tired and forgetful but also stressed, guilty, grouchy, and overwhelmed, seemed a small price to pay.

A lot of pressure for one human being.

The key to adopting minimalism is to focus on what is important in your life - not the 'stuff', but the 'real' things that bring fulfillment and happiness to your life. Once we honestly assess and focus upon what is really important to us, then we can begin to eliminate the clutter and stress in our lives.

I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don't like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.

Rather than enjoying my success I was stressing about it. Wanting it, but at the same time I couldn't handle the consequences. I was intimidated by people.