Quotes About Stress

When you deal with sick minds, never waste time trying to become a healer. The most humane act you can perform for such a person is to state things in such a way that it will make him feel better about how things work out—especially if it involves your getting paid. After all, you can cause him a great deal of stress if you allow him to believe that he might actually be paying you what he owes you.

Consequently, every healing professional is in danger of impairment in some way to some extent

Russian playwright Anton Chekhov once proclaimed: "Any idiot can face a crisis—it's this day-to-day living that wears you out

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Energizing conversations often revolve around a vision or goal, which must be compelling enough to capture people's aspirations but not so grand that it is seen as infeasible or so daunting that it creates stress.

When Chapman established his own ministry a few years later, he always stressed the importance of this type of meeting for all believers.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

only by suffering the rat-race in the arena can the heart learn to beat.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

if you're stressed like a normal mammal in an acute physical crisis, the stress response is lifesaving. But if instead you chronically activate the stress response for reasons of psychological stress, your health suffers. It

pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals.

As we've learned, radical programs for change can arouse your hidden and not-so-hidden doubts and fears (What if I fail? What if I achieve my goal—and I'm still unhappy?), setting off the amygdala's alarms. Your brain responds to this fear with skyrocketing levels of stress hormones and lower levels of creativity instead of the positive, consistent energy you need to reach your long-term goals.

You may have experienced this phenomenon in the form of test anxiety. The more important you believe the test to be, the more you have riding on the outcome, the more fear you feel. And then you find it difficult to concentrate.

While the modern medical name for the feeling produced by a new challenge or large goal is stress, for countless generations it went by the old, familiar name of fear.

The pattern of get up, go to work, pay bills; get up, go to work, pay bills. People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

As Prigogine summarized, "Stress is the way intelligence grows." Or as rich dad would say, "Stay with the process.

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

We have no quarrel with the Freudians, but we do not put the same stress on sexual matters as they do. Sex is very important, but if it were the single most important thing in life, it would all be much simpler, and I doubt if mankind would have worked so hard to live far beyond the age when sex is the greatest joy.

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

work harder to produce better'—is seriously flawed. It isn't sustainable. It just leads to burnout. Exhaustion.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Life change takes time, effort and patience. But the results you will receive make the initial stress you experience more than worth it.