Quotes About Stress

They may not become extinct immediately, but being pushed out of decaying or destroyed habitats eventually takes its toll. The concept is known as extinction debt, the delay between the stress on species and the final dwindling of the last survivors until the organisms disappear and are never seen again.

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.

She'd almost done therapy once before. But it was pretty clear after some research that she just had some post-traumatic stress and generalized anxiety, so it seemed easier to just skip the whole thing and rely on the online tips and tricks she found

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

All of this avoidance was understandable, well-meaning, and in fact filled with love. But the end result turned out to be greater levels of anxiety.

One of the problems with modern life is that we are constantly subjected to lower tones, which create dissonance in our bodies and cause stress and disease. The high vibrations of nature can counteract these disturbing vibrations, stimulating a field around our head that resonates at eight cycles per second, which matches the electromagnetic frequency of the earth itself. This hertzian state is the same as the state achieved during deep relaxation or meditation.

I'm curious," he said, "is telling someone to relax ever helpful? It's like saying 'breathe' to someone who is hyperventilating or 'swallow' to a person who's choking. It's a completely useless admonition." "I

Michael Hopkins of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Laboratory at Dartmouth reports,"It looks more and more like the positive stress of exercise prepares cells and structures and pathways within the brain so that they're more equipped to handle stress in other forms." This means the stress you get from pushing yourself to your physical limits can translate to improved resilience when facing psychological and emotional stressors in the rest of your life.

Sir Walter Scott in his diary gives a description of his own feelings in times of stress. He says, "Nature has given me a kind of buoyancy . . . that mingles even with my deepest afflictions and most gloomy hours. I have a secret pride . . . which impels me to mix with my distresses strange fragments of mirth.

It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted.

It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.

Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.

Thousands of our post-9/11 veterans carry the invisible burden of post-traumatic stress, and there is an overwhelming need to expand the available treatment options.

I perform better under pressure. If I go out there, and I'm not nervous, and I'm too relaxed, I don't like that vibe. I like big matches. I like pressure situations.

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her.

All managers are under pressure. It's our life, always. It's about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me - the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!

Among video game developers, it's called 'crunch': a sudden spike in work hours, as many as 20 a day, that can last for days or weeks on end. During this time, they sleep at work, limit bathroom breaks and cut out anything that pulls their attention away from their screens, including family and even food.

Playing video games, as funny as it might sound, it's a very important part of our day. Our schedule is so hectic, chaotic, demanding that we need an outlet. We need ways to express ourselves and let our energy out.

People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.

I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out.