Quotes About Stress

Touring is a weird thing. It's like getting married to four different people.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me.

After the 1970s, we accomplished economic development rapidly. But the side effect of that was high stress levels or the gap between the rich and poor. And these issues call on me to focus on the welfare and quality of life of the citizens.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

Since we are not robots, we can't always perform well.

Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.

Excessive amounts of overtime are not conducive to safe working practices and environments.

If I forget to pray, I can't get through the day without snapping at people.

Any athlete can preach to this, that when things aren't going well, you tend to bring it home, and the people that take the brunt of it is the family.

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

I get quite bad anxiety and it's come back a bit while I've been pregnant. I don't know why I have it - it's just general life anxiety.

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

I've been a manager in the Premier League for many years and you do become conservative when you're in that bottom section. There's so much stress, because it is so important and there's so much scrutiny.

The hardest part of performing in the Premier League is the mental side of it, with everything being scrutinised.

When things go wrong it is magnified 10 times more in the Premier League.

When you are putting that pressure on yourself to win the Premier League, every game brings pressure, every point counts.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.