Quotes About Stress

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

When I used to work at Friday's, in a restaurant, that endless appetizer, that was my worst enemy as a server. Oh my god.

When I was competing at Oklahoma in college, I remember always getting a lot of anxiety before wrestling matches. Almost to the point where, 'Oh my gosh, man, this is a lot.'

There's a lot of pressure being an Olympic athlete.

The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.

There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.

The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.

As we've said many times before, Introverts get ulcers; Extroverts give ulcers.

Well, you've taken a weight off my mind." "A mind, I should imagine, scarcely constructed to bear great weights.

It's the burglars!" quavered Mrs. Hignett. In the stress of recent events she had completely forgotten the existence of those enemies of society. "They were dancing in the hall when I arrived, and now they're playing the orchestrion!" "Light-hearted chaps!" said Eustace, admiring the sang-froid of the criminal world. "Full of spirits!

I mean, like I needed the stress of a fight with slutty Ms. Thinking-She's-All-That added on top of a life/species/school change?

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope. - Zoey Mongomery (Redbird)

He was a red-headed chap, and my experience of the red-headed is that you can always expect high blood pressure from them in times of stress. The first Queen Elizabeth had red hair, and look what she did to Mary Queen of Scots.

He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kindness. However hard he tried, he'd fall behind; and then you would find him prowling about the house, setting such a clip to try and catch up with himself that Easeby was rapidly becoming a perfect hell for man and beast.

Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place.

When you are discovered by a householder—with revolver—in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted.

They might get through work but they go home and sleep

Half the world's work's done by hopeless neurotics.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics

There's the neurotic mother who's so demanding that the sound of her voice over the phone can cause instant nausea in her daughters.