Quotes About Distress
My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again.
~ Steven Berkoff
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Help me!" he screamed
~ Tim Lebbon
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There's more kinds of pain than just physical pain, you know.
~ Tim Tharp
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Distress refers to harmful stimuli that make you weaker, less confident, and less able. Destructive criticism, abusive bosses, and smashing your face on a curb are examples of this. These are things we want to avoid.
~ Timothy Ferriss
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Ma che faccia che hai, sembri uno che ha un urgente bisogno di essere sepolto.
~ Tiziano Sclavi
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pushing in from the edges. My heart raced. A high-pitched ring pulsed in my ears. Searing pain infused my nose and head as if my sinuses had been
~ Todd Borg
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of how upset, nervous, worried, anxious, or stressed we have a tendency to be.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me.
~ Oscar Wilde
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She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequently commented on this. You are probably familiar with the one who said, Oh, woman in our hours of ease tum tumty tiddly something please, when something something something brow, a something something something thou.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
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Even Spike himself seemed to be aware that there were points in his appearance which would have distressed the editor of a men's fashion paper.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
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In our moments of distress we can see clearly that what is wrong with this world of ours is the fact that Misery loves company and seldom gets it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
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Edmond found it deeply distressing," Winston continued, "that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name.
~ Dan Brown
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Goodsir rolled the corpse over while Fitzjames removed his jacket and beat out the flames rising from the dead man's face and hair. Harry Goodsir felt as if he were watching all this from a great distance. The professional part of his mind noticed with cool detachment that the furnace, as poorly banked as the low coal flames had been, had melted the man's eyes, burned away his nose and ears, and turned his face into the texture of an overbaked, bubbling raspberry flan.
~ Dan Simmons
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A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents disciplined their children. Children, they found, were more empathic when the discipline included calling strong attention to the distress their misbehavior caused someone else: "Look how sad you've made her feel" instead of "That was naughty.
~ Daniel Goleman
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emotional intelligence: abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope.
~ Daniel Goleman
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If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
~ Daniel Goleman
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Focusing on what's wrong about what we do activates circuitry for distressing emotions. Emotions, remember, guide our attention. And attention glides away from the unpleasant.
~ Daniel Goleman
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It may be, for one reason or another, if I'm not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I'm still pitching. Thank God, I'm still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family.
~ David Milch
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Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
~ Daniel Keyes
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I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.
~ Wendell Berry
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Daha az duygusal olan kad?nlar?n fark?na bile varmayaca?? birçok önemsiz ayr?nt? onun duyarl? ruhu için ?st?rap kayna?? oluyordu. Hani mutsuz olmak için doÄŸmuÅŸ insanlar vard?r ya; iÅŸte o zavall? onlardan biriydi.
~ Wilkie Collins
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But many have to look on in silence at what distresses them.
~ Chrétien de Troyes
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There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.
~ Chris Cleave
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The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.
~ Chris Matthews
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