Quotes About Stress

Tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

One cannot be free from the stresses of a speed- and size-obsessed culture, until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time-famine mindset, and comparative impulses that created it in the first place.

The price tag of social change has come in the form of stress and stress-related physical disorders, such as heart attacks, strokes, and hypertension. We must now confront the possibility that mental illness has become part of the psychological price.

Quality time" becomes a guilt-induced euphemism for "not enough time.

I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.

With Mom, what went up must come down, and it was a mystery what exact combination would make life too much for her.

Shit. Claire riffles through worst-case scenarios: The pay is in cocaine;

What if we told you that free play teaches children to be less anxious. It teaches them resilience. And resilience has been proven to be one of the biggest factors in predicting success as an adult! The ability to "bounce back", to regulate emotions and cope with stress are key factors in a healthy, functioning adult.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

I've really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I don't ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I'm not working I'm not at peace.

The lack of work destroys people.

We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks are designed to keep you in them on the weekend.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and super performers at work - and all at the same time. That's stressful.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life..."

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!