Quotes About Stress

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

The answer is the answer to so many of our questions about how best to act in an emotionally tense situation: Withdraw from the conflict.

objects. Added to the trauma of moving

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today

Exhaust your worries and they will soon leave you.

If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! 'Eyes' - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!

La idea habitual de que el estrés no es más que un estado psicológico-?que todo está en tu cabeza?-es tan anticuada como la de que el colesterol es el causante de las enfermedades cardiacas.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.

Ted, calm down—

You mean the guy puking his guts out in your bathroom … the same guy who woke the building up this morning with a blood-curdling scream? The one with no job whose evil former sister-in-law recently dedicated her life to making the rest of his life miserable?

Mac's navy-regulation crew-cut had grown out into a mop of dirty-blonde hair, his hawkish hazel eyes sporting a few more stress lines since their shared three month stay together in the mental ward where they had met seven years ago. The boyish twinkle was still present.

An office is a machine for dying.

Children act up because they are overstimulated and need help to calm down.

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.

He sounded like the king of guy who gets mad for a living.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

When poor people are constantly worrying about money, they neglect other areas of their lives. Scarcity of money affects scarcity of time, which in turn affects scarcity of mental bandwidth. All of these things feed on themselves, leading to worse and worse decision making. And although most of us might take a break when life feels overwhelming, the poor cannot. "Poor people can't say, 'I'll take a vacation from being poor,'" Mullainathan explains.