Quotes About Stress

Multi-tasking is a skill. It may be stressful but a woman's capacity to handle stress helps her to multi task

I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm.

He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

Most of my days in the office end like this: I am in a meeting, it's running over, and I am starting to panic because if I don't leave the office right this second, I will be - yet again - late picking my kids up from school.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

I think a good life-work balance is important, and that's even more important in some cases on the space station.

I've always been able to stay calm in high-pressure situations.

It costs me a lot to stay calm during a game.

You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

Staying present in a high-pressure situation where you have so much coming at you is gold.

I just focus on taking a deep breath, staying calm, and not trying to make the situation bigger than it is.

Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

So, the first step to opening a restaurant is, don't. Opening a restaurant is a series of putting out fires every single day. I mean, even once you're open, it's still a series of putting out fires. Step one: don't.

Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship.

Why do only a fairly minor number of individuals perish because they fail to endure the strain of living—because cognition gives them more than they can carry?" Zapffe's answer: "Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.