Quotes About Stress

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Her student loans were voracious and demanded monthly feedings

cause of the coma was still a subject of some debate, Dr. Villalobos had said, but most likely, it was caused by stress

When we see non-normative rates of stress in a Circler or a department, we can make adjustments to workload

If [one] could eliminate this kind of uncertainty... [one] would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the wave of despair that was gathering in [her] chest. She'd been feeling this, this black rip, this loud tear, within her.

She'd collapsed at her desk, was found on the floor, catatonic

There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they're relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life.

most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. Even

Frankly, as soon as you have two things to do stored only in your mind, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do them both at the same time. This produces a pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pinpointed.

Uncaptured, unclarified, and therefore unmanaged things that you have agreed to do own a piece of you and give you no rest.

thousands of people is that most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

You have to use your mind to get things off your mind.

Trying to keep a list on the calendar, which must then be reentered on another day if items don't get done, is demoralizing and a waste of time.

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest.

Most people have lived in a semistressful experience so consistently, for so long, they don't know that it could be quite different—that there is another and more positive place from which to engage with their world.

Ask yourself, "When do I need to see what, in what form, to get it off my mind?" You build a system for function, not just to have a system.

Too much information creates the same result as too little:

it is championing appropriate engagement with your world—guiding you to make the best choice of what to do in each moment, and to eliminate distraction and stress about what you're not doing.

Doing nothing is not only a waste of energy—it often promotes decay and unnecessary complexity and stress.

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. —David Kekich

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest. On