Quotes About Stress

Dentist's office: Most parents get stressed when they think about taking their child to the dentist.

challenged with busy schedules

For me, the start of a party only means a change from the tangible, boring, but satisfactory work of cooking, cleaning, and decorating to the unpredictable and far more difficult task of keeping several hundred neighbors and family members from injuring each other or driving me crazy before the end of the evening.

We work in a profession that has consequences for the heart

It's not what you do but what you don't do - the things you postpone, not the things you accomplish - that make you tired.

When you're worried about something,' said Henry abruptly, 'have you ever tried thinking in a different language?

strenuous occasions where (jumpy, un-opiated, wracked to the last synapse)

I was overworked, underpaid, and socially retarded. But

Human beings are incapable of making big decisions when they are being crippled by numerous little decisions. It was why people stayed employed at soul-crushing jobs, because they only had to handle it on a day by day basis, rather than think of it as a forty year wasted chunk of their lives. I

stress' in a solid is rather like the 'pressure' in a liquid or a gas. It is a measure of how hard the atoms and molecules which make up the material are being pushed together or pulled apart as a result of external forces.

Numerically, the stress in any direction at a given point in a material is simply the force or load which happens to be acting in that direction at the point, divided by the area on which the force acts.

slope of the stress-strain diagram measures how readily each material strains elastically under a given stress.

pressure acts in all three directions within a fluid while the stress in a solid is often a directional or one-dimensional affair.

Geometrical irregularities, such as holes and cracks and sharp corners, which had previously been ignored, may raise the local stress ? often only over a very small area ? very dramatically indeed.

When stress becomes a habit mentally, emotionally, and physically, a default setting on our inner dial, then it becomes "normal" and we no longer notice its presence. But the stress is still there, and it affects how we perceive, feel, and react to events in our lives. And stress is the major cause of anxiety.

In America, 13.5 million days of work are lost per year due to work related depression, stress and anxiety.

When you look at the statistics of families dealing with special needs kids, the odds are that the added stress breaks you apart. For some reason, it made us a closer, more compassionate family. It made us a team.

Labor-saving technology was supposed to give us more leisure time, but a greater percentage of our waking hours is spent in work or work-related tasks than ever before, as we spin like squirrels in exercise cages, desperate to keep current with change and therefore employable.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety." - Jack Nicklaus

Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.

Why America has never made the connection between tract housing and psychosis is beyond me

anxiety due to environmental stress is a major cause of myopia. Gottlieb

Buying a house is right up there with the holy trinity of death, divorce, and public speaking.

I have long stressed the Hegelian procedure at work in this reversal of positions of the beautiful soul in relation to the reality he accuses. The point is not to adapt him to it, but to show him that he is only too well adapted to it, since he assists in its very fabrication.