Quotes About Stress

Sometimes motorists do irrational things.

If you are in a bad state of mind then you would end up snapping at people, getting irritated. It's happening with many. The best way to avoid that is by doing things that take away the stress.

Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of the test and exam system often does just that.

Burn-out can be an issue if you are playing too many games.

I have some anger issues.

Italian managers don't enjoy themselves at all.

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

I don't think I was a control freak. I just couldn't get my head around things. When I joined Sheffield United I was told I had £5m to spend, then when I went to see the chief executive he told me if I didn't raise £350,000 no one was getting paid.

I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

Dado que un hogar desordenado conduce a una mente desordenada, y una mente desordenada conduce al estrés, a la ansiedad y a la depresión, no es sorprendente que el simple hecho de adoptar un enfoque minimalista de la vida pueda traerle una mayor felicidad.

An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

Let's assume that people respond to stress." "Is that true?" "Well, not just negative stress, but also positive stress like interest, or ambition. If they're under too little stress, they don't care, so it's very hard to motivate them to do something. But if they're under too much stress, they panic. They freeze, or they get angry and do completely irrational things.

Within the mind, especially the mind under great stress... boundaries of space and time are meaningless, and the... interior self lives by other rules and in other dimensions.

The Central Nervous System is like a cup of tea that you must never let overflow." -Charlie Francis, Sprint Coach Every stressor, whether it be personal problems, internal training, weight training, or lack of sleep, adds tea (in this case, fatigue) to your cup. If the cup of tea (fatigue) does not overflow but is adequately stressed, supercompensation (fitness) takes place.

Teachers work twice as hard as the general public will ever imagine.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

I was a little busy being shot at." "Busy? Aw, mate. It doesn't take any effort at all to get shot at.

Oh, thank you, I thought, feeling an overwhelming sense of relief. Dancing was stressful—but murderous demigods, those I could deal with.

Worry has weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource.