Quotes About Stress

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

Drank a lot of take home pay.

I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

I like leaving things to the last possible minute, then letting blind panic be my stimulus.