Quotes About Stress

That is how farm-raised crocs exist for the first three years of their lives, in a crowded, pitch-black prison, with constant, blaring music—then a sudden blast of light, a beating, and some food.

Visions of the entire Krusty Krab burning to the ground flashed through SpongeBob's fevered brain. If SpongeBob

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

The world is too big for us. Too much is going on. Too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race in spite of yourself. It is an incessant strain to keep pace, and still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderness. . . . Everything is high-pressure. Human nature can't endure much more." —Atlantic Journal Editorial, June 16, 1833 The

Calvin stopped looking at the girl and he put on imaginary blinders. The girl was creeping him out, and he just couldn't adjust to the queer vibe coming off of this little onlooker. Even with a meal and guidance out of this black hole to come, Calvin stressed fearfully. He thought of Lot's wife, but looked again anyway. His head moved as if his chin was being tilted in that direction by invisible fingers.

Don't let one bad moment ruin your day. Think of it as a bad minute, not a bad day, and you'll be OK. Stress begins when your worry list is longer than your gratitude list. Happiness begins when your gratitude list is longer than your worry list. So find something to be thankful for today. Be sure to appreciate what you've got. Be thankful for the little things in life that mean a lot.

Don't spend more than 5 minutes worrying about something that won't matter in five years.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

I've found Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Collins) and The Feeling Good Handbook (Plume) to be extremely helpful and highly regarded books in the area of managing stress in productive ways. Many

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

I had personal problems. I was spending 50% of my life on my family, 50% on boxing. Neither was getting anywhere. It was killing me. So I had to break away from fighting.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

I don't know, I think everybody deals with nerves and adrenaline a little bit differently.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

I don't think anything affects my nerves.

My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.

My nerves sometimes hijack my body and I am no longer in the driver's seat.