Quotes About Stress

Matriculations, gender quotas, recruiting, financial aid, room-assignments, mealtimes, rankings, class v. drill schedules, prorector-hiring, accommodating changes in drill schedule consequent to a player's movement up or down a squad. It's all the sort of thing that's uninteresting unless you're the one responsible, in which case it's cholesterol-raisingly stressful and complex.

Naturally, the significant results that legitimize a mathematical theory take time to derive, and then even more time to be fully accepted, and of course throughout this time the Insanity-v.-Genius question remains undecided, probably even for the mathematician himself, so that he's developing his theory and cooking his proofs under conditions of enormous personal stress and doubt, and sometimes isn't even vindicated in his own lifetime, etc.

El odio que se siente por el trabajo al final del día no es más que una parte del trabajo

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

All I can say is, 'Damn the exam!

By pausing, if only for a few seconds and taking a few slow, deep breaths, we can begin to slow down our heart rate and relax our tensed muscles. We can then focus more effectively on what response will best advance our interests.

Life is too short to allow little things to fret.

Tant que l'homme sera mortel, il ne sera jamais décontracté.

If it wasn't for his anxiety, he'd get no aerobics at all.

Tantrum time, rage, anxiety, depression, genetics, Miltown.

By now I had taken to sauteing my Xanax for culinary variety

I still experienced some moderate feelings of anxiety—like when you're buried alive.

If it feels like work, you're working too hard.

Ultrarunning seemed to be an alternative universe where none of planet Earth's rules applied: women were stronger than men; old men were stronger than youngsters; Stone Age guys in sandals were stronger than everybody. And the mileage! The sheer stress on their legs was off the charts.

running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. And when things look worst, we run the most.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

Tice and Baumeister (1997) found that procrastinators not only received lower grades but also got sick more and had more visits to health clinics than nonprocrastinators.

Work was the disease and the cure.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.

The more you look at your problems, the bigger they get." -Chuck Smith

Obat untukku adalah tertawa dan berteriak dan membebaskan diri dari ketegangan.

Halloweenies: People who break up around Halloween because it's the last stop before the family-filled, gift-mandated, high pressure holidays: Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year's.