Quotes About Stress

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform.

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

Relaxation is the key to speed and quicker reaction time.

To achieve this his team had a sophisticated stress testing environment. When they wanted to improve the architecture they would first improve the stress tests until the system broke. Then they would improve the architecture just enough to run the tests. I suggested this strategy to an architect at another company. He complained of spending all of his time writing specifications and then explaining them to developers.

If there are forms of testing, like stress and load testing, that find defects after development is "complete," bring them into the development cycle. Run load and stress tests continuously and automatically.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream." Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking right now. You're living in a story that isn't true for you.

In hard times you don't share your secrets and you sure don't borrow trouble.

His only defense for now was not to think about it until he had to. But everywhere he turned kids were whispering, "Report card, report card." So much anxiety in the air made it hard to breathe. The end of the day came far too quickly and there it was in his hand--a report card that spelled disaster in Ds and Cs.

running is cheaper than therapy.

Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?

constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction.

All things being equal, workflows that minimize this never-ending stream of urgent communication are superior to those that instead amplify it. When you're at home at night, or relaxing over the weekend, or on vacation, you shouldn't feel like each moment away from work is a moment in which you're accumulating deeper communication debt.

An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.

As long as we remain committed to a workflow based on constant, ad hoc messaging, our Paleolithic brain will remain in a state of low-grade anxiety.

Biology, like any high-stakes academic field, is demanding. Because of this it has a reputation for turning young professors into curmudgeons who adopt a masochistic brand of workaholism, in which relaxation becomes a sign of failure and the accomplishments of peers become tragedies.

The idea that you can ever reach a point where all your obligations are handled is a fantasy.

Bluma Zeigarnik, describes the ability of incomplete tasks to dominate our attention.

this feeling of losing control

People who multitask all the time can't filter out irrelevancy. They can't manage a working memory. They're chronically distracted. They initiate much larger parts of their brain that are irrelevant to the task at hand… they're pretty much mental wrecks.

Bad courses, with incompatible professors and unreasonable requirements, are the key to developing an ulcer.

the lack of distraction in my life tones down that background hum of nervous mental energy that seems to increasingly pervade people's daily lives.

break out in a sweat.