Quotes About Stress

Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.

When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.

Can you see how worries multiply? Suddenly you are a gifted prophet

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life—yes, the one life—you'll probably ever have.

With grim care the Master and the superintendent watched them. It is at such times of climatic stress that dogs occasionally become sick or half crazed with the heat, unless they are kept quiet and as cool as may be. Hence the superstition that rabies walks rampant during the so-called dog days. Almost never is it true rabies. Nearly always it is some malady or other due to exposure or over-exertion or wrong feeding, on the part of the humans in charge.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .

Me carga que la gente espere cosas de mí. Me enreda, me complica, me obliga a responder.

Alzheimer's is being called type 3 diabetes, linked to a gluten-rich, wheat-based diet and a stressed-out brain.4

Sometimes she feared she'd left her husband behind, too. Viewed in straightforward, brutal terms, the equation was simple. Her workday left her barely enough time to be a mother or a wife. Not both.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

You have to avoid thinking of what upsets you. If not, it will take over your life.

People are very fearful these days.

Strenuous exercise can retrain your body's reaction to stressors. Exposing yourself to predictable, incremental physical stressors in the gym or the playing field increases your capacity to be calm and clear-headed in stressful real-world situations.

For organizations, burnout contributes to declines in productivity, a more stressed and unhappy workplace, and greater turnover. And it's often an organization's most talented and valuable workers who are most likely to burn out.

Crying is the most primitive mechanism the body has to relieve tension and pain.

The maintenance of a facade predisposes a person to somatic illness because it imposes a constant stress upon the body. One tries to be what one isn't which deforms the personality and the body. When the deformation (stress) persists long enough, the internal structure of the body breaks down.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease

just in case" is the curse of packing

What I want to know is, when did busy become better? When did a jam-packed diary become a measure of success?

Most find the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting more stressful than the shooting itself.

Many mothers and father return each evening from their paid jobs only to serve as homework monitors, a position for which they never applied.