Quotes About Stress

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.