Quotes About Stress

my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. the pain over my heart returns, and from it i imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks.

so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists

I was going to ask your thoughts on the war, but if you're too upset . .

He's . . . he's having concentration problems," I answer. I don't want to say he had a complete mental meltdown.

After all, I'm only human. I can only take so much emotional fallout before I crack.

must double down on making yourself an absolutely essential piece of your firm's success. That should be your goal at any time, but in these times of economic stress it is imperative. It is how you keep moving forward in a very competitive job market.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.

You don't even realize how much stress you're under living in a big city until you pack up and go somewhere else for an extended period of time.

Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I need little peace now, i cant handle the situations.

But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

The man who is successful is the man who works hard during business hours, and then goes home and leaves his office behind him and takes up play. A man should devote a part of each day to recreation, to outdoor exercise, to frivolity and to frolicking with his children at home. If he does not care to play, worry will take the place of play. Worry and hard work together will kill a man. Work and play will make him live.

Kill the habit of worry, in all its forms, by reaching a general, blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.

Do you resort to liquor, narcotics, or cigarettes to quiet your nerves? If so, why do you not try will-power instead?

Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.

In spite of what is studied in business schools concerning "economies of scale," size hurts you at times of stress; it is not a good idea to be large during difficult times.

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.

Being an executive doesn't require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrowing schedules.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.