Quotes About Stress

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

parents in poor neighborhoods are more likely to experience depression, stress, and illness, which in turn "are associated with less warm and consistent parenting.

Too much fast food and too much caffeine, her doctor said. Good advice, but eating well and exercising took time Tracy didn't have

crushing headache.

My insomnia stretched to months. When I did sleep, it was with the aid of a pill, but even that did not prevent the nightmares

If she didn't have a deadline hanging over her head like a guillotine blade, she couldn't focus worth a damn.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

She's like that, always shifting the goalposts. What was right one minute was wrong the next. You had to walk on eggshells, you really did.

You can't just ignore me and cut me off and refuse all compromises. I can't live like this.

I'm fine, for God's sake,' said Robin, now slightly exasperated. 'If I keeled over every time someone got stabbed in London I'd spend half my life unconscious.

If the stress resulting from trying to resist change could be transformed into energy, we wouldn't have to worry about coming up with alternatives to fossil fuels.

We are wistful about the Golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were asked what in life they really missed, the answer would be primal danger and stress.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

Great bosses avoid burdening their people. They invent, borrow, and implement ways to reduce the mental and emotional load they heap on followers.

a twenty-year study that tracked six thousand British civil servants found that when their bosses criticized them unfairly, didn't listen to their problems, and rarely praised them, employees suffered more angina, heart attacks, and deaths from heart disease. You get the idea. It doesn't matter whether the assholes around you are getting ahead or (more likely) screwing up their lives, careers, and companies. They pose a danger to you and others.

The survival lesson from studies and stories on backstage regions is that, to reduce your exposure and to recharge your defenses, it helps to find—and if necessary, invent—asshole-free zones where you and others can take temporary refuge.

Stress can bring out your unresolved issues. Like many silent sons, you may be at a low boiling point but not realize it. When stress occurs, your reactions are extreme and you don't understand why.

Family life demands emotional doseness. For many silent sons emotional closeness is stressful, even if they want it more than anything else.

Stressed-out individuals tend to press too hard for results at crucial moments, and the harder someone presses for a result, the less likely it is he will achieve it.