Quotes About Stress

Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Sometimes the only thing to do is yell "Fuck!

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

The first, stress, gets a stranglehold on us when we move through life feeling like everything (every decision, every answer, every provision, every protection) rests on our shoulders.

Enough of little lives led by little people, crumpling under the weight of stress. And enough of empty ambition masquerading as something grand yet marked by the numbing effects of a vacant heart.

Lord, when little things—and big things—make me want to lose my temper, help me not to sweat it. Remind me to ask You what to do instead.

Haar zenuwen waren als koorden gespannen en trilden onder Betsy's beledigingen als onder ruwe handen.

When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.

The growing "epidemic" of stress, lifestyle diseases, and autoimmune diseases has no root cause according to mainstream medicine, yet that root cause seems simple to us: it's really an epidemic of not loving the self.

Chronic patterns of self-hate, guilt, and self-criticism raise the body's stress levels and weaken the immune system.

Migraine headaches are created by people who want to be perfect and who create lot of pressure on themselves. A lot of suppressed anger is involved.

When fear is your dominant mood over a long period of time, the constant release of stress hormones, specifically cortisol, triggers a domino effect of chemicals that lead to heart disease, weight gain, and depression. As

Migraine headaches are created by people who want to be perfect and who create a lot of pressure on themselves. A lot of suppressed anger is involved. Interestingly, migraine headaches can almost always be alleviated by masturbation if you do it as soon as you feel a migraine coming on.

The stresses I had obsessed about seemed like cleverly constructed challenges that beckoned me to create life more mindfully and authentically.

Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh.

A man naturally given to action, Jean-Guy had come late to the value of pausing. "It is solved by walking," Gamache had often said. In the middle of a stressful case, the Chief would leave his office, and instead of doing something, he'd go for a walk.

He needed to keep his fear at bay. A little was good. Kept him sharp. But fear, unchecked, became terror and terror grew into panic and panic created chaos. And then all hell broke loose.

In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

Worrying doesn't change anything, just causes unnecessary stress.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

You do the best you can, but you don't want to start worrying about your lack of sleep, because it's been found that worrying about lack of sleep is one of the big causes of insomnia

We get used to seeing the patients ill; even used to them dying. When they do we get upset if we know them. We can't get upset for those we don't know. We have to forget them. We'd all have nervous breakdowns if we didn't.