Quotes About Stress

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.