Quotes About Stress

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Worrying is the greatest egoism!

Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

Der Hauptgrund für Stress ist der tägliche Kontakt mit Idioten.

Choice gives you doubts and uncertainties. Therefore, you are always somewhat anxious

you create severe anxiety when you jump from inclination to "musturbation.

The first point in this model is: Feelings largely cause behavior. The way you feel, and how strongly, greatly influence how you will behave in a situation. If you get yourself overly anxious, angry, and upset about getting somewhere, you will likely drive like a nut.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

torture and other forms of stress were inflicted

In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing.

Too much tension is a disease; but so is too little. There are certain occasions when we ought to be tense, when an excess of tranquility (and especially of tranquility imposed from the outside, by a chemical) is entirely inappropriate.

The whole of Ireland was put on to the four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma; that was all. Those three and a half hours of extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness, that people felt constrained to take a holiday from them.

I sometimes find myself thinking: wouldn't it be far less complicated to have a job like that? To sell things? To order cheese and salamis and all the rest and not worry about what we should do and how we should do it?

The reunion, she decided, was an unnecessary and stressful complication to life. We did not need to reheat cold dishes from the past.

And where does religion come into it? Are Protestant countries inherently less corrupt?" "No," she said. "I don't think it's that simple. The issue, I suppose, is whether a culture stresses telling the truth. That's the real point. It's not religion.

Teaching is so demanding, and you get so little support. That pinch will have done Olive no harm - probably a lot of good.' 'Do you really think so?' 'Yes,' said Matthew. But then he went on, rather sadly, 'But I suppose that's not the world we live in, with all these regulations and busybodies about.' He paused. 'I think you've struck a blow for sanity. Or rather, pinched one.' She thought this very funny and laughed. 'I'm rather fed up with teaching anyway,' Elspeth said.