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Quotes About Stress

I'm not the most together person in the world and it doesn't take much to make all the wheels fall off.
~ Lisa Jewell
and you know my alarm goes off at six thirty yet you couldn't even wait for half an hour because you're too fucking selfish. So yes, thanks a lot, Nathan. I've had four hours' sleep and now I have to get our kids up and get them ready for school and
~ Lisa Jewell
The knot in Kim's stomach hardens and she turns to Megs and she says, 'What the fuck is the matter with you? Huh? I mean, what the fuck is the fucking matter with you? Our kids have been missing for three days. Three days! And all you can do is moan and tut and sigh and act like this is all some kind of massive inconvenience. Well, I'm so sorry to drag you out of the pub, out of your back garden, so sorry to keep you from getting on with your day.
~ Lisa Jewell
When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.
~ Virginia Postrel
This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you have on your mind 24/7, it does take a toll on your health and you have to be very cognizant about what's going on with your body and listen to your body and make sure that you take care of your body.
~ Frank Vogel
To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture.
~ Malcolm Nance
While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.
~ Brad Feld
I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
~ Peter Sotos
I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.
~ Henry Paulson
Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'
~ Pico Iyer
As a kid... there's a veil of separation between you and your dad, especially when you have a dad who's under a lot of stress.
~ Lee Isaac Chung
I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.
~ Stuart Appleby
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Sometimes I like to vent.
~ Victoria Jackson
Things in the industry get too competitive. In that pressure, you tend to lose yourself. So, it's important to have someone to turn to and vent out.
~ Amaal Mallik
I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
~ Samantha Akkineni
I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well.
~ St. Lucia
I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.
~ Glenn Close
As much as only playing clubs can become tedious, performing in huge venues can also become off-putting. To go from one to the other feels great. And sometimes playing clubs can be even more stressful, because you really have to think about what you're going to tell the audience between songs.
~ Stromae
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
~ Bill Owens
I must make decisions every five minutes and give the impression of being sure of myself! Sincerely, this is the cause of my verbal violence.
~ Giorgio Armani
I'm constantly on the verge of a panic attack.
~ Camille Rowe
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
~ James Fenton