Quotes About Stress

He was talking too much. People with unstable nerves are like that. One moment monosyllables, next moment a flood.

Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren't so busy surviving.

Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Even so, at times stress is inevitable, and seven-day-week-style activities, such as golf before a conference call, or a break on the beach between inventories, help reduce it to reasonable levels. Executives who are embarrassed to take these breaks or companies that frown on them are shortsighted. Stress is a major disruption; and its effects, such as burnout, are grim reapers for talented people.

stressful year after year? One reason is the ever-evolving army of mind viruses, taking over a greater and greater

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Do not sweat the small stuff.

Fortunately, there is an inviolable law in our emotional environment that goes something like this: Our current level of stress will be exactly that of our tolerance to stress.

In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent.

I've never met anyone (myself included) who hasn't turned little things into great big emergencies. We take our own goals so seriously that we forget to have fun along the way, and we forget to cut ourselves some slack. We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. Or, we beat ourselves up if we can't meet our self-created deadlines.

Trying to do "one more thing," we do much less.

I am chewing my nails off to the elbow, like Noel Coward's lady.

Do you think too long a period of nightlessness," mused Sandra, "could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can?

You're far too young for a governess,' mused Lizzie as she stirred cream into her tea. 'And the strain of behaving would probably kill you,' muttered Frank.

It is not just soldiers in the field who later suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. It is often the inevitable consequence of a seemingly normal sublunary existence.

the kind of pounding in his skull that made him immediately wish he could twist it off his neck and hurl it out the window.

It keeps us centered and focused, it slows down the aging process, it lowers our blood pressure, it improves our stamina, our memory, our lung capacity, our general outlook on life itself.

Performance anxiety and a dry-cleaning bill; those were the only things keeping me from stark raving lunacy.

I'm the kind of person, who, when bored or unhappy, either drinks myself into oblivion or cooks very unhealthy things; Sally is the kind of person who, when bored or unhappy, goes jogging or cleans the bathroom with a toothbrush or matriculates at rabbinical school.

The loon started smacking her forehead with the heel of her palm. Fuck! she yelled. Fuck! FUCK!

have to sell my soul to some power-hungry supervisor the minute I get to work, and then five minutes later I have to turn around and sell it again to some numb-nuts who's mad at the world because he didn't have any better sense than to get drunk out of his skull and total his car. Half the time I have to work ten hours a day without overtime.

Remember that in a threatening environment, the human brain becomes permanently organized for aggression.

parenting and caretaking were so much harder than she'd thought they would be. No one had explained to her that she'd be constantly worried, her imagination churning out worst-case scenarios with devastating details as if she'd suddenly become Stephen King's muse.

Will's life was complicated enough right now without Sara putting him on the spot.