Quotes About Stress

All the fortune that I have made has not served to compensate for the anxiety of that period.

Apparently he was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

morem pellis hispidus distentione nervorum—

All that work and then, finally, something levitates. When the minute stresses of practice fade, the specialness emerges. There is a quotation from On Directing Film by David Mamet that I underlined in 1993 and have never forgotten: Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual may become beautiful.

Some kind of a mechanism to burn off the panic she was feeling. On Friday she'd been a rich

nervous, which might have meant that back there in the parking lot the guy's heart was going as fast as 180 beats a minute, which meant those T-waves

It takes a lot of energy just to deal with life when you are neurotic and obsessive-compulsive.

He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace and quiet was a full-time, nerve-rattling job.

Researchers have gathered a wealth of data lately suggesting that chronic anger is so damaging to the body that it ranks with — or even exceeds — cigarette smoking, obesity, and a high-fat diet as a powerful risk factor for early death.

Yes, yes sir—routine is worry's sly assassin.

is worry's sly assassin.

Waltzer was stirred by the boy's assurance under stress. Waltzer believed in invented destiny and invented some then and there.

Ever notice that when you lack sleep, things that seemed important before no longer seem to matter so much? Setting up and programming the coffeemaker so the coffee will be ready when I wake up the next day seems like a great idea at 9:00 p.m., but at 2:00 a.m.

Later studies showed that a prior sense of helplessness and lack of control is linked to both stress and the onset of disease.

Just relax and breathe through your ass.

And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!

If I have to look through one more of these, I'm throwing myself off that balcony," he moaned. "Let me know if you need help," Jericho said.

Qwilleran drove with clenched jaw, enduring the stares and glares of motorists who passed him, their fretful horn-honking and hostile tailgating.

As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain.

I save my panic for small things.

The word worry is derived from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "to strangle or choke." The stranglehold of worry keeps a woman from enjoying a life of contentment and peace.

When we spend precious time worrying about what might happen, anxiety becomes negative baggage that weighs us down, saps our energy, and leaves us ineffective.

Worry and anxiety give a small thing a big shadow, and this shadow creates problems, not just in the soul and spirit, but in the body.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.