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Quotes About Stress

I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.
~ Scott Speedman
Hey, I learned early the game of football is just that, a game, and you can't get too uptight. If things get too terrible, you can always go out and get another job somewheres else.
~ Cris Collinsworth
You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.
~ Gilbert Arenas
You don't want to get nervous or uptight. Nobody plays well that way.
~ Cris Collinsworth
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
~ Whitney M. Young
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
~ John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'
~ Josh Peck
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
~ Robert Carlyle
I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.
~ Saul Bass
Working gets in the way of living.
~ Omar Sharif
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
~ Shirley Hazzard
You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.
~ Bill Buford
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
~ Lenny Bruce
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
~ Eli Wallach
No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
~ Joyce Brothers
Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.
~ Marissa Mayer
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
~ Byron Katie
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?
~ Hafez