Quotes About Stress

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

The secret is I get very little sleep, and one day, I'll probably explode.

I know Chicago cops. They're tough. They have to be. The whole city would explode. It's like a bomb, Chicago.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

I actually think I play better with pressure, that extra pressure when the team needs something more and things like that.

You can feel a bit of extra pressure bowling at your own ground.

As a teenager you've got a lot of stuff going on all the time. It's hard to find a couple extra hours of sleep.

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

Pressure is the biggest single factor in Test cricket.

So many months in the 'X Factor' house and sharing my room with five other girls was tough.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

I believe all teams choke in certain situations.

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.

Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.

This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he's being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.

There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.

Working is a great distraction technique.

Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres.