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Quotes About Stress

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?
~ Christina Applegate
Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.
~ Kenny Dalglish
Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.
~ Liz Miller
I feel like I get really stressed out sometimes. I just want someone to tell me, "Relax, it's all going to be okay." I think that's all we really need.
~ Shiri Appleby
Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.
~ Steven Soderbergh
People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
~ Cary Cooper
I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.
~ Delia Ephron
Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.
~ Donnie Yen
I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.
~ Downtown Julie Brown
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.
~ Duff Goldman
I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing
~ Jennifer Connelly
I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.
~ Scott Ian
I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
~ Shawn Johnson
I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.
~ Tom Cruise
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
~ Alexander Payne
Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.
~ Andre Agassi
There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head spinning all the time.
~ Bob Mould
A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.
~ Bronson Arroyo
I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.
~ Dick Latvala
Stress lay in the cast of the mind, as far as Brys was concerned. Born of perspective and the hue through which one saw the world, and such things were shaped by both nature and nurture.
~ Steven Erikson
Unfortunately, empathy often falls by the wayside because when we need it most, we're least open to using it—that is, when we're under stress, misunderstood, irritated, or defensive.
~ Steven J. Stein
Women everywhere had higher scores in two of these categories—social responsibility and empathy—while men universally scored higher on stress tolerance.
~ Steven J. Stein
Bayard's worry, the things he could not say, hung as a tension in the air.
~ Storm Constantine
Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.
~ Stuart Brown