Quotes About Stress

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression.

The pressure will always be there. If we enjoy the pressure, then we will be able to do well, but if we put ourselves under pressure, then we can get into trouble.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.

I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.

It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.

There's nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.

Trust me: it's no fun where we're on the fourth set, or you've got to serve second serve on a break point down.

When you have to worry about some idiot making the decision on a roster move, or hiring coaches, or some of the stuff you have to worry about... when you have that added pressure and stress of not trusting the organization and knowing that they don't know what they're doing, that's just an added amount of stress you don't need as a young player.

The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

I find that if I go on a vacation, it's like that's more stress to me, because I want to get back.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.