Quotes About Stress

Going to work every day was like my hair was on fire and all I had to put it out was a hammer.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired." The socially accepted excuse for being mental.

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."I frowned, "What's that?""Homework.

When all else fails...try smoking a good cigar and have a stiff drink. If that doesn't work...have another.

Come on, there's no one there. You want coffee?" Tess asked."Yeah, sure, why not? I'm only on the brink of a nervous breakdown. I don't imagine why caffeine wouldn't help this situation.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks.

...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

Worry is a waste of imagination.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

To worry is to add another hazard.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.