Quotes About Stress

survival pressures within the organism play a role in its overall improvement under external stress.

complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.

To my knowledge there are no studies investigating the exact properties of trader's burnout, but a daily exposure to such high degrees of randomness without much control will have physiological effects on humans

by persons squeezed by life.

Needless to say they were usually sleep-deprived. Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.

size hurts you at times of stress; it is not a good idea to be large during difficult times.

Carlos was getting jumpy and losing some of his composure.

Most of the tension in life will take place when the one who reduces and fragilizes (say the policy maker) invokes rationality.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible." "Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system." "This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing." "Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

Because deprivation is a stressor—and we know what stressors do when allowed adequate recovery.

Contrary to popular belief, these small, seemingly harmless stressors do not strengthen you; they can amputate part of your self.

possessions make us worry about downside, thus acting as a punishment as we depend on them.

like the chronic stress we experience daily from small doses of negative feelings

Ninety-five percent of the employee's mind will be on company politics…

When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely…," Private Taylor wrote, "it would…demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.

I feel as if my entire life depends on my holding it together.

I shouldn't be here," I appeal to the captain, wondering if I've told him this before. "I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends.

The more I think the more my head hurts, and lately my brain has been in constant overdrive. I keep taking showers to cool it down, like the way they pour water on an overheating machine. I usually feel better after the third or fourth shower.

he other classes were much needed distractions from the Stress of the assignment and when his parents found out, which of course they did, they called him in a controlled panic. All their regret and guilt at sending him to a boarding school overflowed along with their fear for his life. He had to console them and tell them it was going to be okay. He's the one who's life may have been in jeopardy and yet he had to console them.

One crisis at a time!

Length and stress are both mutated in an open area where language mobilizes a network of meaning using the open space as a kind of time divided by an unquantified movement of the eye and breath while reading.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.