Quotes About Stress

She told him to think of his mind as a Worry Wheel with three parts—an anxious mind, anxious body, and anxious actions. She said an anxious mind got the Worry Wheel spinning, and an anxious body kept it going until anxious actions made it spin out of control.

In the original form of the word, to worry someone else was to harass, strangle, or choke them. Likewise, to worry oneself is a form of self-harassment. To give it less of a role in our lives, we must understand what it really it is.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

According to one medical researcher, poor breathing plays a role in more than 75 percent of the ills people bring to their doctors. In most cases, poor diaphragmatic breathing is the culprit. On

Pero en serio, ¿cómo se hace para dominar los nervios? No se hace nada. Simplemente te aguantas y al final se pasan.

My entire body is shaking. I'm losing it. A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

I learned that childhood rhyme or the dictum that demanded you scratch your head every time you heard a siren, lest the next siren be for you. But I do know when I started doing it, and now it's become second nature. Still, in a place like Manhattan, where the sirens are always blaring, it can become exhausting to keep up.

Suenan como un centenar de bombas de tiempo esperando por explotar.

At least he didn't have a gun." You know your day sucks when the high point is you haven't had a gun pointed at you.

Well, I guess that tells you not to call me in a crisis.

I think I need to avoid the world today. There's no way I can adult.

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent. Can everything really be that important?

Show me a developer who isn't crashing production systems, and I'll show you one who can't fog a mirror. Or more likely, is on vacation.

Unplanned work has another side effect. When you spend all your time firefighting, there's little time or energy left for planning. When all you do is react, there's not enough time to do the hard mental work of figuring out whether you can accept new work. So,

When you spend all your time firefighting, there's little time or energy left for planning.

makes me angry when we need to make some heroic, diving catch because of someone else's lack of planning.

This process of applying stress to increase resilience was named antifragility by author and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent.

Unplanned work is what prevents you from doing it. Like matter and antimatter, in the presence of unplanned work, all planned work ignites with incandescent fury, incinerating everything around it. Like Phoenix.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache . . . unless you play golf.

Good evening, Empress Zanther. How are you feeling?" Zanther smiled faintly back. "I can sum it up in one word, my friend: stress.

Management positions always come with ulcers attached.

Irene realized she was on the point of shouting. Worse, of being ungrammatical. She took a deep breath.

You're being awfully calm about this." "Having your hand catch fire puts things into perspective…I find that it distracts me.