Stress Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.’ – William James
‘Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.’ – Hans Selye
‘Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.’ – Keanu Reeves
‘In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.’ – Lee Iacocca
‘Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.’ – Melody Beattie
‘Just enjoy every moment – don’t stress. Just be yourself.’ – Mabel
‘Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.’ – Peter Diamandis
‘One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.’ – Viggo Mortensen
‘The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.’ – Norman Vincent Peale
‘Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you’re there for everything.’ – Kate Spade
‘God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.’ – Kelly Clarkson
‘Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.’ – Marilu Henner
‘The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.’ – Hank Johnson
‘Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don’t shy away from it, embrace it.’ – Gary Woodland
‘All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn
‘We get bored because we don’t want to sit with our fears. We don’t want to sit with our anxiety. We don’t want to sit with our stress because it’s uncomfortable.’ – Jay Shetty
‘Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I’m doing this.’ – Rose
‘Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.’ – Jen Lilley
‘Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.’ – Valerie Bertinelli
‘If there is no word that means you don’t have the concept. In North Korea they eliminate the words: depression, stress, dictatorship, human rights. You cannot think of those. That’s why all the brainwashing was possible.’ – Park Yeon-mi
‘Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.’ – Lily Tomlin
‘My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.’ – Ashton Eaton
‘Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.’ – Natalie Goldberg
‘Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.’ – Joyce Meyer
‘Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger
‘There’s a lot of stress… but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.’ – Dan Brown
‘I don’t let things stress me out, and I’m doing my best with all the battles life presents.’ – Jake Shears
‘Some people gain weight during times of stress, but I lose weight.’ – Cindy McCain
‘I enjoy an evening stroll. It helps me to reflect and eases stress.’ – Blac Chyna
‘If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.’ – George Burns
‘If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.’ – Emma Goldman
‘Globalisation is under stress due to new and emerging geo-political and geo-economic faultlines.’ – Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
‘I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.’ – Ariana Grande
‘The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I’d get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I’ve since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.’ – Matthew Perry
‘If you improve a teacher’s self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher’s overall effectiveness across the curriculum.’ – Elaine MacDonald
‘To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you’ve prepared mentally and physically, you don’t have to worry.’ – Harvey Mackay
‘Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.’ – Richard Carlson
‘Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.’ – Ziggy Marley
‘Everything is changing all the time, and I’m not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn’t exist.’ – Brie Larson
‘Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.’ – J. K. Rowling
‘The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.’ – Harvey Cushing
‘I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.’ – Patty Hearst
‘If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.’ – Jocko Willink
‘Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.’ – Marcus Buckingham
‘Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.’ – Carl Honore
‘I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.’ – Dave Chappelle
‘When I’m under stress, I do yoga. It’s when I’m happiest that I have a problem with junk food.’ – Britney Spears
‘If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.’ – Kris Carr
‘I asked long ago,’What must I do to be saved?’ The Scripture answered, ‘Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.’ I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.’ – John Wesley
‘It’s a profound privilege to die from stress related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious disease which is responsible for bringing lifestyle diseases to the fore – and these are exquisitely sensitive to stress.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Problems can be experienced as… a chance for renewal rather than stress.’ – Marilyn Ferguson
‘I like to meditate. But I get rid of my stress at the gym.’ – Jason Statham
‘A lot of people say I look like a rock star or a designer punk. But I swear it’s the job that has carved my face. It’s the hours, the stress, and the pressure. It’s not me trying to look like this.’ – Marco Pierre White
‘Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.’ – William J. Clinton
‘Everyone has the ability to increase resilience to stress. It requires hard work and dedication, but over time, you can equip yourself to handle whatever life throws your way without adverse effects to your health. Training your brain to manage stress won’t just affect the quality of your life, but perhaps even the length of it.’ – Amy Morin
‘In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.’ – Nargis Fakhri
‘I don’t worry about stress. I create it.’ – Jim Mattis
‘Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.’ – Hans Selye
‘Doing something like ‘Damages,’ I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.’ – Chris Messina
‘If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.’ – Courtney Barnett
‘On a motorcycle, you can’t really think about more than where you are. There’s a freedom that comes with that – from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.’ – Laurence Fishburne
‘Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Three to four times a week, I do boxing with a trainer. It’s great because you get to punch things and let out stress.’ – Molly Qerim
‘The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.’ – Ha-Joon Chang
”Sunrise Sunset’ is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.’ – Benny Cassette
‘I’ve learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I’m gonna do after the race, what I’m gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.’ – Usain Bolt
‘Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don’t have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.’ – Daisaku Ikeda
‘Too much dependence on the market has led to growing inequality and poverty, and too much stress on nature has exacerbated the problem of climate change.’ – Fumio Kishida
‘Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of ‘This is the way the world should be,’ and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.’ – Srikumar Rao
‘I’m doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven’t shown any additional clogging.’ – Alberto Salazar
‘There’s so much going on in the world. There’s so much information being thrown at us – so many things are being sold to us, and we’re being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.’ – Michael Fassbender
‘If you don’t have ample liquidity, and it’s not durable, in times of stress, as you’re looking for liquidity, you’re forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There’s no question that liquidity is sacrosanct.’ – Ruth Porat
‘There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.’ – Kenneth H. Cooper
‘It’s amazing how stress keeps you trim.’ – Peter Andre
‘When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.’ – Zig Ziglar
‘Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.’ – James Tobin
‘No wonder they call shopping ‘retail therapy,’ as any girl will tell you how it just takes away all the stress.’ – Riya Sen
‘I’ve got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I’ll be trying to do something on the computer, and I’ll get stuck, so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There’s nothing in any way ‘helpful’ about it.’ – Lewis Black
‘I’ve reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.’ – Wesley Snipes
‘Life gets weird enough without having to worry about whether you are covered for this or have to have a deductible for that, so the less stress when you are in need, the better.’ – Finn Wolfhard
‘Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.’ – Alvin Toffler
‘Lower stress equals a calmer approach at the plate. Calm equals a still head, allowing us to see the ball better. Confidence and relaxation; the hitter’s Holy Grail.’ – Gabe Kapler
‘They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.’ – Bernard Pivot
‘I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.’ – Dave Grohl
‘But you have to take asthma seriously. People do not realise the stress our bodies go under.’ – Mark Cavendish
‘For 99 percent of the beasts on this planet, stress is about three minutes of screaming in terror after which it’s either over with or you’re over with. And we turn it on for 30-year mortgages.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?’ – Douglas Wilson
‘I think that whenever you feel reactive or are being reactive as opposed to proactive, that inherently – consciously or subconsciously – creates a lot of stress.’ – Tim Ferriss
‘I love my job. I don’t find it stressful, and I only took a rest because I didn’t find another club after Real. It was not something that I needed because of stress, because that is not a problem for me. I don’t have pressure. I like my job, and I know how it is. I have experience.’ – Carlo Ancelotti
‘I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.’ – Arthur Boyd
‘I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.’ – Chris Kyle
‘I’ve always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you’re just piling a lot of unnatural, unnecessary stress on your face. I try to keep it simple.’ – Amber Rose
‘Meditation isn’t snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn’t a panacea. If you don’t meditate, there’s no need to stress out about it.’ – Adam Grant
‘My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.’ – Brooke Shields
‘I can’t stress this enough: The single thing that will guarantee a happy, fulfilled, and calmer life is the quality of your human relationships, especially the people you love and who love you back.’ – Joanna Coles
‘In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.’ – Will Durant
‘Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.’ – Joan Van Ark
‘I’ve got a couple of grays in my beard and maybe a little salt and pepper in my hair. If I let my hair down and go through it, you’d see a good bit of grays. Maybe from the stress of the road and the crazy business I’m in.’ – Roman Reigns
‘I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I’m kind of a pleasant person – really.’ – Natalie Martinez
‘We get caught up in all the stress – ‘Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?’ – but what about the thing you want to do? That’s what’ll keep you young. It’s empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person’s idea of what you should be.’ – Matt Dillon
‘I’m really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.’ – Dorothy Hamill
‘I live by fallacy. ‘If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I’ll be a grown-up.’ Then I catch myself. Or, ‘If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I’ll be OK.’ Then I catch myself.’ – Chuck Palahniuk
‘I stress a lot, sometimes.’ – David Ortiz
‘Being a lawyer is absolutely stressful in its own right. But then, doing ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ and all the media afterwards, you can imagine, that’s just like a whole new level of stress.’ – Rachel Lindsay
‘Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.’ – Gregory Bateson
‘The key to winning is poise under stress.’ – Paul Brown
‘A baby adds more stress to a relationship – you’re up all night and it really is a test. Everything changes. You can’t just go for lunch or dinner or a drink. That goes out the window, and you’re dealing with the serious stuff.’ – Nadine Coyle
‘I have a few celebrity friends, but I’m really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.’ – Keke Palmer
‘The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.’ – Gelsey Kirkland
‘Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.’ – Noreena Hertz
‘I believe dancing is the best stress reliever.’ – Dylan Lauren
‘If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.’ – Jocko Willink
‘I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women’s pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven’t tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.’ – Jarvis Cocker
‘The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn’t a bad thing. It’s simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what’s real.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.’ – Jonathan Haidt
‘When we speak of maintaining clean water supplies and a sustainable use of the environment, we should also stress the elimination of harmful chemicals in consumer products.’ – Margaret Cuomo
‘Part of fitness is eliminating as much stress as you can.’ – Mark Schlereth
‘You are a kind of entertainer. You get judged every single week for what you do on the pitch and you have to deliver and do your best. For me as a striker, this is something I cannot stress about because if you think too much, you might end up doing things you don’t want to do.’ – Erling Haaland
‘The most important thing is to make a percussive instrument a singing instrument. Teachers should stress this aspect in their instruction, but it seems that very few of them actually do.’ – Vladimir Horowitz
‘I’m very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can’t think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.’ – Pico Iyer
‘Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.’ – Marilyn Ferguson
‘Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.’ – Hans Selye
‘Don’t let anyone tell you what you cannot do. My whole life I had people tell me ‘you’ll never do that’ or ‘you’ll never be that.’ Things people said I’d never be able to do, I’m doing. I try and stress that to kids. A lot of inner-city kids have an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. I have to explain that there is hope.’ – Montel Vontavious Porter
‘I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh, and I’m really sarcastic, so it’s important that she can take a joke. I think if you are going to be with someone for a while, you really need someone you can let loose with and let go of all the stress of the day.’ – Matt Lanter
‘At a lot of college graduations, you’ll hear people say, ‘Follow your passions,’ and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.’ – Sal Khan
‘Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.’ – Britney Spears
‘Stress is an important dragon to slay – or at least tame – in your life.’ – Marilu Henner
‘Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.’ – Gail Sheehy
‘Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.’ – Mark Shand
‘Yoga is great for easing my back pain. It also helps me keep stress at bay, which is something I can suffer from.’ – Dervla Kirwan
‘I think everyone must practice yoga, especially during this time of COVID-19 pandemic to decrease stress and anxiety. It not only helps our physical health but also helps in maintaining a good mental health.’ – Jasmin Bhasin
‘The moment I see my daughter’s face, I am instantly happier, my stress just disappears, and I forget everything else.’ – S. Sreesanth
‘Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and – which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.’ – Tiger Woods
‘Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.’ – Irwin Redlener
‘I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.’ – Boris Yeltsin
‘Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
‘No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.’ – Evan Daugherty
‘A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.’ – John Gray
‘As an actor, we’re unemployed a lot, so I’m familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don’t really want to do to keep the money coming in.’ – Aaron Douglas
‘You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.’ – Marie Osmond
‘Don’t stress out about the things you can’t control.’ – Danielle Macdonald
‘I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI’s, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.’ – Siri Hustvedt
‘Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.’ – Jack Wagner
‘The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.’ – Taylor Swift
‘Extra weight – whether it’s physical, emotional, or spiritual – holds us back from our health and our potential. Overeating is a behavior caused by stress, depression, excitement, fun with friends, self-sabotage, and countless other feelings, emotions, and circumstances. There can always be an occasion to eat and overeat.’ – Tara Stiles
‘Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress – a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Ergonomics is about designing for failure modes and extremes: how things break under repetition, stress or other limits. And the goal of ergonomic designis to create an alignment between the user’s limits, the thing you’re designing, and how people will ideally use that thing.’ – Tristan Harris
‘The manager is always on at us about mental strength anyway. He just comes in and stresses how important it is to be strong mentally, to succeed you’ve got to go through pain both mentally and physically.’ – Kalvin Phillips
‘I don’t want to be any kind of producer at all – hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It’s too much stress and includes managing everybody’s egos… handling my own is enough!’ – Kajol
‘There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.’ – Craig Stevens
‘You can never turn the clock back and, since we’re talking about mental health, I would stress that.’ – Peter Shilton
‘I don’t think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It’s an awful lot of stress.’ – Matthew Goode
‘No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.’ – Joe Rogan
‘Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.’ – Angela Merkel
‘A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don’t have that outlet.’ – Terrell Owens
‘I think it’s so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin – I don’t get the thin, thin thing at all.’ – Lily James
‘Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there’s stress or tension, they won’t go out on a limb because they won’t want to embarrass themselves if they don’t feel completely comfortable.’ – Peter Farrelly
‘We must teach our people the greatness of China’s historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China’s civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.’ – Chiang Kai-shek
‘We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.’ – Jean-Pierre Raffarin
‘It is true that some people have some misgivings about China-U.K. cooperation. What I want to stress is that in today’s world, no country can afford to pursue development with its door closed. One should open the door, warmly welcome friends, and be hospitable to them.’ – Xi Jinping
‘I’m 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don’t feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don’t know that I’m necessarily an addict.’ – Lindsay Lohan
‘We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.’ – Viggo Mortensen
‘I’ve seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.’ – T Bone Burnett
‘To achieve fitness one need not hit the gym. One can always opt for any sport: yoga, jog, swimming and much more. The idea is to do something that not only burns calories but relieves stress as well.’ – Milind Soman
‘Maybe it’s stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.’ – David Horsey
‘I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It’s like, without it, I’m not me. You can’t be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can’t stress that enough.’ – Terry Crews
”Ice Cream’ is such a sweet song, just like ice cream! Whenever I need to relieve some stress, or just want to feel better about something, I listen to it.’ – Dahyun
‘The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn’t get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Every day, I get up to hit the gym; the schedule is such that it gives me the requisite energy to last the entire day. I stress on cardiovascular exercises, and the workout is programmed with my sporting schedule. Most of the fitness schedule is based on what I require for my upcoming matches.’ – Gautam Gambhir
‘You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.’ – Alice Coltrane
‘Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level!’ – SZA
‘Spotify stresses me the hell out.’ – Julien Baker
‘The biggest mistake anyone can make is being too strict. That stress far outweighs the value of what you’re doing. There’s a disciplined way to do things.’ – Laird Hamilton
‘Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.’ – Susan L. Taylor
‘I find when I’m overly concerned about what I eat, I stress out my body and put on weight.’ – Hayden Panettiere
‘If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.’ – Gregory Bateson
‘My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn’t have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.’ – Angela Bowie
‘I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.’ – Evo Morales
‘I think it’s harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn’t like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.’ – Sherri Shepherd
‘I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.’ – Dave Chappelle
‘You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.’ – Adele
‘I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.’ – Jack Ma
‘Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.’ – Hans Selye
‘Is stress always bad? No – if a stressor isn’t too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like a benevolent environment, it’s great, we love it – that’s what play and stimulation are.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.’ – John Simon
‘Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it’s really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That’s the ultimate demise of any good thing.’ – Dianna Agron
‘Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.’ – Luciana Berger
‘I’m guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.’ – Timothy Dalton
‘You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist.’ – Tom McCall
‘Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.’ – Rider Strong
‘Did people care about how a singer sounded live back in the day? I don’t really feel like they did. Not everything was being filmed. Today, one huge mess-up, and millions are seeing it. There’s a lot more on the line nowadays. We’re so cautious and scared of messing up. It adds a lot of stress to a career.’ – Shawn Mendes
‘I think the only thing wrong about our profession is the frustration you go through, when you don’t have work, when you are going up or down. All the time the stress is there.’ – Supriya Pathak
‘I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn
‘Baking is fun! I find it very therapeutic, a stress buster.’ – Sameera Reddy
‘If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.’ – Simone Biles
‘I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There’s a glamour to, like, ‘I’ve got to get to the airport!’ I just like the caricature.’ – Fred Armisen
‘If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?’ – Maria Konnikova
‘My life is so much better with lupus because I know that stress and too much junk food will literally put me in hospital.’ – Katherine Ryan
‘Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.’ – Jamais Cascio
‘We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you’re anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia – even during times of stress and fatigue.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
‘The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.’ – Wayne Dyer
‘Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That’s always the main reason.’ – Stephen Chow
‘Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you’re not even able to judge well whether you’re working well or not.’ – Daniel Levitin
‘The way I do things is I take it one day at a time. Don’t try to put too much pressure or stress on myself figuring out what somebody else is going to do. Just worry about what I got to do.’ – Trevor Ariza
‘I am so stressed that my dentist told me I am grinding my teeth due to stress. So, every evening, I get shooting pain from my jaw to my head.’ – Alia Bhatt
‘Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette’s, but I think it’s partly an outlet because when I’m acting, I’m putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that’s one of the times during the day when I don’t tic.’ – Dash Mihok
‘Live in the moment, day by day, and don’t stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what’s in front of them.’ – Jenna Ushkowitz
‘If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes… it can be a very useful way of thinking.’ – Marilyn Ferguson
‘Don’t overdo it. Don’t over-diet, over-exercise, overeat, overdo the makeup, and don’t stress out.’ – Cheryl Ladd
‘The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.’ – Ronald Fisher
‘I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.’ – Don Young
‘My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I’m always afraid I’m going to get a cold. And it’s just such a nightmare when you got a cold or an irritation and you have to do a show.’ – Geddy Lee
‘I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope – hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.’ – Alain Juppe
‘We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.’ – Simon Sinek
‘I think that is one thing I’ve picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.’ – Aaron Judge
‘The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.’ – Nikola Tesla
‘The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn’t been able to keep up.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‘suspects.” – Noam Chomsky
‘I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn
‘At its worst, there’s just virtually no organ system in your body that’s not thrown out of kilter in some way by chronic psychological stress.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Combat stress isn’t the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq – there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness.’ – John Sandford
‘Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is – and that is the point I want to stress – that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.’ – Karel Capek
‘I also think stress is related to control. When you’re in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don’t really matter like traffic jams.’ – Marilu Henner
‘I don’t stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I’m being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I’m happy.’ – Kiara Advani
‘Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
‘I like being on stage more. That’s stress free. Being on the panel is a big responsibility and you need to keep a check on a lot of things.’ – Shakti Mohan
‘Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.’ – Blake Lively
‘We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it’s sprinting away from a lion.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.’ – Adam Richman
‘Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller
‘When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.’ – Joe Namath
‘I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.’ – Tiffani Thiessen
‘Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don’t see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.’ – Dave Winfield
‘Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.’ – James Reston
‘Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.’ – W. Somerset Maugham
‘Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They’re trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn’t add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.’ – Barbara Mikulski
‘It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.’ – Richard Carlson
‘Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.’ – Alexis Bledel
‘I’m picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it.’ – Anita Baker
‘People don’t realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.’ – Grant Hill
‘When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.’ – Pol Pot
‘We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can’t break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.’ – Peter MacKay
‘I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that’s how the album came out so dark.’ – Vanilla Ice
‘Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.’ – Andrew Denton
‘And I always like to stress, it’s not a quota, not a set-aside, it’s not about race, it’s about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.’ – Alphonso Jackson
‘I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety – panic attacks – and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.’ – Geoffrey Rush
‘It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.’ – Omar Bongo
‘I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.’ – Christopher Shays
‘In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics… am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.’ – Edward Albert
‘One of the things I’ve always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it – like, not to change.’ – Peter Steele
‘The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.’ – Irving Babbitt
‘I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei
‘I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don’t want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.’ – James Ellroy
‘Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation’s water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.’ – Jerry Costello
‘I can’t stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you’ll come through.’ – Frank Lampard
‘A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.’ – Donna Rice
‘In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families.’ – John M. McHugh
‘We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.’ – John M. McHugh
‘Often when a person can’t get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.’ – Marilu Henner
‘For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.’ – Fay Wray
‘On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind – to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.’ – Terry Brooks
‘I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.’ – Jerry Falwell
‘If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.’ – Michelle Hunziker
‘What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, ‘I need more hormones.’ So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it’s even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.’ – Marie Osmond
‘On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.’ – Placido Domingo
‘I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like – what do they call it? – post-traumatic stress syndrome.’ – Rose McGowan
‘Everybody’s going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it’s a stressful time in everybody’s lives.’ – Chris Frantz
‘Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They’re burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.’ – David Wilkerson
‘And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier’s stress levels to see how they’re doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.’ – Jane Mayer
‘There’s a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.’ – Tom Berenger
‘The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who’ve happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It’s happened a few times in forty years.’ – Fred Saberhagen
‘The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.’ – Grete Waitz
‘I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.’ – Maria Monk
‘Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.’ – Jenny Craig
‘Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.’ – Ted Rall
‘We’re all proud of the communities that we’ve built and are a part of, but we shouldn’t accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.’ – Melissa Bean
‘Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it’s diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.’ – Mary Ann Mobley
‘I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.’ – Christie Brinkley
‘I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.’ – John Hewson
‘Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.’ – Cofer Black
‘Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don’t know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there’s chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.’ – Mike Ditka
‘I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they’re denying that they are addicted, say it’s stress this, it’s this, it’s that. But I – it’s – I think – I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don’t.’ – Dick Van Dyke
‘I am thrilled – I can’t stress that enough – thrilled when I see kids getting active.’ – Harvey Fierstein
‘We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn’t and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.’ – Genevieve Gorder
‘I’ve chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.’ – Martin Short
‘Today’s accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.’ – Earl Wilson
‘Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.’ – Janet Street-Porter
‘I can say ‘reduce your stress level’ until I’m blue in the face.’ – Mary Stewart
‘I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.’ – A. R. Ammons
‘I’m going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting ‘Star Wars’. I don’t know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her – that seems like a bunch of stress right there.’ – Selena Gomez
‘I’m under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn’t stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn’t even stay dead long enough – I was too stupid. I should’ve stayed low. I should’ve laid low. I could’ve been gone for a year; I’d have made money. And then I’d have risen from the dead.’ – Sinbad
‘You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course – and it’s important to stress this – you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.’ – William Hague
‘I think you’re certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can’t stress how competitive they all are and how close it’s going to be.’ – Dan Wheldon
‘I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that’s clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That’s what they should do. It shouldn’t be a government function.’ – Arthur Laffer
‘I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.’ – Elizabeth Warren
‘I don’t think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.’ – Rachel Maddow
‘The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country’s problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all – and the new government stresses this – and the unity of all, we will achieve that.’ – Lucas Papademos
‘I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.’ – Ann Bancroft
‘Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.’ – Edward Felten
‘We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can’t impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.’ – Campbell Newman
‘The best anti-aging advice I’ve ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.’ – Carolyn Murphy
‘I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn’t have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.’ – Justin Long
‘Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.’ – Amitabh Bachchan
‘I hate people saying anything stupid. I don’t really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I’m not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.’ – Joshua Jackson
‘What I would say is I’ve only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn’t strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.’ – Andrew Bogut
‘I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.’ – Marat Safin
‘I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.’ – Tia Mowry
‘I’ve worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you’re seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy – there’s further to fall. All these little worries.’ – Matthew Macfadyen
‘How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.’ – Sandra Lee
‘The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.’ – Ricky Williams
‘I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they’re young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma – something that makes you want to be funny.’ – Julie Brown
‘I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?’ – Jenny McCarthy
‘I cannot stress enough that the answer to life’s questions is often in people’s faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people’s faces. People’s faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.’ – Amy Poehler
‘It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.’ – Ana Gasteyer
‘It’s not just being overweight that’s dangerous. Stress is dangerous.’ – Carnie Wilson
‘There’s a terrible price to pay for stress in your life – it really takes a hit on your heart.’ – Leeza Gibbons
‘There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether to let it affect you or not.’ – Valerie Bertinelli
‘I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn’t stress the actors.’ – Shah Rukh Khan
‘You can’t escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother’s clam chowder. It’s security, comfort. It brings you home.’ – Jacques Pepin
‘I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I’m also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.’ – Giada De Laurentiis
‘The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.’ – Giada De Laurentiis
‘I’ve had so much stress in the last year so it’s really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone’s going to take my picture, that’s what I look like.’ – Carnie Wilson
‘As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.’ – Rodney King
‘Men and women who have served in harm’s way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.’ – Ron Wyden
‘I don’t think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it’s just going to stress me out and get me worried.’ – Missy Franklin
‘Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.’ – George Noory
‘I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn’t go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.’ – Cher
‘You don’t know what people are really like until they’re under a lot of stress.’ – Tim Allen
‘Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It’s a product of stress and in my case over-work.’ – Adam Ant
‘We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It’s not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.’ – Nick Clegg
‘It’s such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.’ – Shirley Henderson
‘I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing ‘Famished Road,’ which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.’ – Ben Okri
‘Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.’ – Rick Springfield
‘You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don’t agree with, or find disagreeable, so it’s important to stress that balance.’ – William Hague
‘It’s perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress.’ – George Osborne
‘I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don’t find that as interesting as one who’s really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.’ – Melissa Rosenberg
‘When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn’t do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.’ – Sophia Bush
‘All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.’ – Sophia Bush
‘For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.’ – Barney Frank
‘Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it’s not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.’ – Theresa May
‘A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.’ – Laura Schlessinger
‘I stress character, character, character.’ – Maurice Sendak
‘I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven’t. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.’ – Katherine Jenkins
‘I’d like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war – a cool place where everyone could live.’ – Dionne Warwick
‘If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley… It’s nearby and no stress – great food and beautiful walks.’ – Sadie Frost
‘I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.’ – Harlan Coben
‘I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don’t feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don’t worry or stress like I used to.’ – Jayma Mays
‘I’m taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.’ – Monica Potter
‘We talk a lot on ‘Biggest Loser’ about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I’m always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.’ – Alison Sweeney
‘I won’t sit here and say I’ve never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.’ – Janelle Monae
‘It’s a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release stress.’ – Laurie Holden
‘I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent – things I’d never thought about before.’ – Ezra Koenig
‘Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don’t remember what life was like without it.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can’t choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it’s true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘People often say that stress is a motivator. What we’re referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘If you’re successful and stressed out, you’re succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don’t need stress to get there.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won’t feel bored.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘What’s taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren’t two parties involved in stress. There is only one – your own mind.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘You can’t tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn’t just because we think more, but also because we think differently.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor ‘out there’ in the world. We experience stress – or we don’t – depending on what we believe.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘It’s time we learned the truth about stress. It’s time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein
‘Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.’ – Geoffrey Boycott
‘And I think that it’s – the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we’re making progress.’ – Karl Marlantes
‘Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it’s not right for everybody. It’s taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.’ – Lisa Edelstein
”Stress’ was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.’ – Julie Burchill
‘Any of us are capable of doing things we’re not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.’ – Bill James
‘When you’re growing up, you play dress-up – it’s a game, it’s a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.’ – Lauren Conrad
‘I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother’s eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. I can’t go into detail, but while I was growing up, I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through.’ – Kellan Lutz
‘I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you’re somebody who’s used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it’s a whole other experience.’ – Kara DioGuardi
‘Marriage is a lot of things – a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it’s also an interpersonal battlefield, and it’s not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids – now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?’ – Jeffrey Kluger
‘I don’t thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.’ – Bear Grylls
‘I’m a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it’s a great stress reliever.’ – Katrina Bowden
‘When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.’ – Raine Maida
‘I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don’t organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.’ – Joy Behar
‘What the Obama administration’s policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is a policy which stresses investments.’ – Bill Gross
‘I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I’ve never thought that. For me it’s always been a lot of work and pain and stress.’ – Ben Lewin
‘You know, the dirty secret in the Director’s Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director’s Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service.’ – Eli Roth
‘I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it’s terrific stress release.’ – Tony Abbott
‘A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.’ – Gale Anne Hurd
‘I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It’s harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you’re lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you’re sore the next week. Its stress release.’ – Danny Pino
‘Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.’ – Kris Carr
‘I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive ‘stress’ of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.’ – Francesca Lia Block
‘Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.’ – Sean Brady
‘I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss
‘Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.’ – Tom Hodgkinson
‘A lot of people who are overweight – not everyone, but a lot of people – are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.’ – Ian K. Smith
‘A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.’ – Amy Chua
‘People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.’ – Tim Ferriss
‘I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It’s kind of my stress reliever.’ – Lester Holt
‘The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.’ – Dale Archer
‘Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.’ – Dale Archer
‘Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.’ – Mem Fox
‘Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn’t called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!’ – Mireille Guiliano
‘The truth is, I’m not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it’s all going on.’ – Alex Kingston
‘I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.’ – Emily Browning
‘Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.’ – Keri Russell
‘When you’re under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.’ – Viggo Mortensen
‘It’s tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I’ll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I’ll be like, ‘Oh great!’; even though it stresses me out that I don’t have enough room to put them, I can’t throw them away.’ – Will Ferrell
‘I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.’ – Erin Andrews
‘I think when we use ‘stress’, we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.’ – Siddhartha Mukherjee
‘I’ve always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn’t get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don’t have to deal with anything but dinner, ‘E.R.’ and my bathrobe.’ – Caroline Knapp
‘The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can’t stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.’ – James Badge Dale
‘I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I’m only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I’m on holiday and I think, ‘Oh this feels pretty good.” – Mark Ronson
‘In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.’ – Bela Karolyi
‘In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.’ – Geoffrey S. Fletcher
‘I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I’ve never got ill is that I’m not stressed.’ – Simon Cowell
‘We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.’ – Adam Braun
‘Some brides stress, some don’t. I think I’m a serene bride.’ – Charlene, Princess of Monaco
‘A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.’ – Bruce Forsyth
‘I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I’ve thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don’t have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.’ – Alec Baldwin
‘I’ve been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.’ – Henry Paulson
‘Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.’ – Barton Seaver
‘Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It’s an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.’ – Johnny Weir
‘Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to ‘do it all,’ which often means, ‘all by themselves.’ Why? They’ve been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin
‘Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn’t dance in pictures. I cried! At one point I had polio, which I believe was a result of the stress I felt in the studios.’ – David Holt
‘Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.’ – Shawn Achor
‘My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.’ – Melissa Etheridge
‘I think I’ve been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.’ – Melissa Etheridge
‘I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.’ – Olivia Wilde
‘Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, ‘Do I really need that piece of cake? No, because I don’t want to stress out my pancreas.” – Eric Topol
‘We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can’t have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with – promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in ‘Star Trek.” – Gene Roddenberry
‘Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.’ – Brenda Strong
‘Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops.’ – Margaret Heffernan
‘Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about… how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.’ – Geoffrey Canada
‘It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It’s basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.’ – Jane McGonigal
‘We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.’ – Jane McGonigal
‘Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that’s now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.’ – Janine Benyus
‘Posttraumatic stress is something that’s always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it’s only recently that we’re beginning to be aware of it.’ – Janine di Giovanni
‘The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.’ – Jesse Schell
‘You know for years, I’ve heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn’t until I saw my own son’s perspective change that I became a true believer.’ – LZ Granderson
‘Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.’ – Julian Baggini
‘To me I don’t deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can’t do it.’ – Doug Jones
‘Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future.’ – Srikumar Rao
‘Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.’ – Srikumar Rao
‘In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.’ – Ian Goldin
‘I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.’ – Tina Fey
‘I just refuse to date actors. I’ve done that, and I don’t want to do that anymore. It’s just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.’ – Lea Salonga
‘I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.’ – Gautam Gambhir
‘The deepest fear we have, ‘the fear beneath all fears,’ is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.’ – Tullian Tchividjian
‘If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that’s enormous for helping the stress.’ – Anne Graham Lotz
‘Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.’ – Paul Stamets
‘I can’t stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it’s the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.’ – A. J. McLean
‘I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she’s a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.’ – Anita Baker
‘I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it’s more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind.’ – Tanit Phoenix
‘In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.’ – Barbara Kingsolver
‘During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.’ – Sal Albanese
‘I don’t know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.’ – Sandra Bullock
‘Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that’s often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one’s youth.’ – Simone Signoret
‘Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.’ – Douglas Rushkoff
‘Whenever we feel stressed out, that’s a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.’ – Daniel Goleman
‘There’s something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you’re talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.’ – Jessica Valenti
‘I like that they call it an airplane cabin. A cabin is where you go to get away from stress. The cabin is a respite from the terminals on either end of the flight where noise bombards you as soon as you walk through the gate.’ – Regina Brett
‘I do love fashion. I certainly wouldn’t suffer all the stress that comes with it if I didn’t really love it. I always talk about the team of people I work with every day. They share that passion.’ – Marc Jacobs
‘I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.’ – Aimee Mullins
‘The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.’ – Rush Limbaugh
‘I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
‘I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.’ – Reba McEntire
‘For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It’s to let it all out – the stress, the self-consciousness – you think less; it makes you more centred.’ – Eva Green
‘I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.’ – Shakira
‘I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn’t like something like a PR job. I can’t diffuse situations.’ – Chrissy Teigen
‘Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.’ – Vladimir Putin
‘I’d never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, ‘You’re on stage tonight.” – Johnny Vegas
‘Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.’ – Troy Polamalu
‘People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We’re human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others’ shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it’s a very sad thing.’ – Janet Jackson
‘I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I’ve been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.’ – Kim Cattrall
‘Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don’t consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.’ – Lee Thompson Young
‘I cannot stress a greater importance than to teach the young generation about the risks of unhealthy eating. A great way to pique their interest in nutrition is to involve them more in the cooking process. They not only will learn to cook for themselves, but also develop a lifetime of healthy habits.’ – Marcus Samuelsson
‘As far as diversity’s concerned, there’s me, there’s Al Madrigal, there’s Aasif Mandvi. But I’m not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.’ – Jessica Williams
‘There’s no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there – a source of vital strength.’ – Wole Soyinka
‘Running is a part of my medicine. It’s what helps relieve my stress, and it’s what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that’s going on in my life that I need to escape from at times – to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.’ – Ziggy Marley
‘For me, working out is a form of therapy. It’s cathartic for me; it’s a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I’ll feel so much better afterwards.’ – Bob Harper
‘There is no better test of character than when you’re tossed into crisis. That’s when we see one’s true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.’ – Tess Gerritsen
‘Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.’ – Tom Rath
‘It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It’s priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.’ – Patrick Soon-Shiong
‘After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn’t want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.’ – Vivek Wadhwa
‘I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I’m just being really tough on myself.’ – Idina Menzel
‘I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.’ – Maisie Williams
”Diversity’ is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other – that is, when they are not killing each other. A ‘diverse,’ peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.’ – Richard Lamm
‘I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification – education, hard work, success, and ambition – are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.’ – Richard Lamm
‘I’m proud that LearnVest is creating content that helps expectant moms tackle their finances. As much as possible, we hope to lessen the stress during what is said to be such a life-changing time.’ – Alexa Von Tobel
‘This isn’t like cancer, where we don’t know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it’s this huge cause of stress.’ – Alexa Von Tobel
‘One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them.’ – Scott Stossel
‘Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it’s easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There’s an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.’ – Gretchen Rubin
‘At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you’re not really passionate about the work you’re doing in a world of mounting pressure, you’re going to experience more and more stress. You’re going to burn out. You’re going to become marginalized.’ – John Hagel III
‘Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.’ – Vladimir Bukovsky
‘We’re the only species that can look into the future and know that we’re going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.’ – Jason Silva
‘I am mentally strong, but physically I’m constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don’t talk about it and make myself sick with it.’ – Sonam Kapoor
‘You’re born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special ‘single’ status, I don’t understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.’ – Bipasha Basu
‘Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.’ – Mahesh Babu
‘I always have stress.’ – Takashi Murakami
‘The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.’ – Don Kardong
‘The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.’ – Romeo Dallaire
‘In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.’ – Ann Voskamp
‘In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You’ll just ask the program, ‘Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?’ Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.’ – Tyler Cowen
‘Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.’ – Noreena Hertz
‘I’m sort of a gym buff. It’s a stress relief for me. But I only go for 20 minutes at a time.’ – Kayla Ewell
‘Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.’ – Chanda Kochhar
‘Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of the workplace, but one of the continuing frustrations for women is the lack of respect they get for taking on the responsibility for domestic life, whether they’re also working outside the home or not.’ – Mariella Frostrup
‘Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.’ – Chelsea Clinton
‘I don’t have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.’ – Joe Torre
‘Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.’ – Joe Torre
‘Exercise is more important than diet for me because it’s a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you’re a representative of the public, there’s never a shortage of things to do.’ – Aaron Schock
‘Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere – liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.’ – Virginia Postrel
‘An economically confident America has – since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century – tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.’ – Thomas P.M. Barnett
‘Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.’ – Srikumar Rao
‘Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.’ – Tim Walberg
‘I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.’ – Karen Finerman
‘Given the trendlines of digital publishing, where more and more large platforms are profiting from, and controlling, the works of individuals, I can’t stress enough: Put your taproot in the independent web. Use the platforms for free distribution (they’re using you for free content, after all). And make sure you link back to your own domain.’ – John Battelle
‘I wrote ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.’ – John le Carre
‘I’m a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.’ – Natalie Maines
‘When I’m grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals… it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.’ – Darby Stanchfield
‘I’m not a regionalist. Both places have their pros and cons. And the cultural differences are slighter than they are made out to be. L.A. riots, N.Y. shops. Both are good for stress relief.’ – Kyp Malone
‘The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You’re in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you’re in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.’ – Shane Filan
‘In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don’t want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.’ – Harbhajan Singh
‘Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.’ – Joe Taslim
‘My middle name should be ‘Drama,’ but I love it. I think everyone should have some kind of stress in their life; otherwise, it’s boring isn’t it?’ – Katie Price
‘What happens when we’re willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad – but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.’ – Martha Beck
‘Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.’ – Lisa Gansky
‘We’ve all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn’t deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.’ – Ariel Garten
‘Obsession with conventional ideas of ‘success’ can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.’ – Ariel Garten
‘It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them… They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.’ – Seamus Heaney
‘I believe you should find at least two hours of every day to spend doing the things that make you happy and relieve stress. I try to wake up a little early so I have an hour to work out and try to allow at least an hour a day to hang with friends.’ – Jill Wagner
‘Working out gives me the opportunity to let go and listen to my music; it’s a big stress reliever.’ – Erin Heatherton
‘Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don’t know if it’s so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.’ – Jim Rash
‘That’s what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.’ – Marie Osmond
‘There’s no real downside to any sort of work that I do. I’m all so grateful for it, but I wouldn’t say that animated work is just a walk in the park. It is easy, it’s really fun, but I don’t know why I really stress myself out every time I’m about to go in.’ – Christopher Mintz-Plasse
‘Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.’ – Larry Fitzgerald
‘In order to have skin that glows and looks healthy and actually is healthy, you need to look at the whole picture and have a holistic approach to it. A lot of it is exercising regularly, drinking enough water, getting enough sleep, and keeping stress down.’ – Allison Williams
‘Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love… if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.’ – Curtis Mayfield
‘There’s a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don’t let anybody tell you any different, because everyone’s special and everyone’s awesome.’ – McKayla Maroney
‘For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric’s straightforward questions unraveled her.’ – Tina Brown
‘With all that’s going on in our lives and the world, reducing stress is important, and it’s a factor in heart health.’ – Andie MacDowell
‘Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It’s a great stress reliever for me. It’s great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it’s things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.’ – Scott Bakula
‘Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You’ll look and feel way better for it.’ – Suzanne Somers
‘I don’t stress about things I can’t change, so if I have a day when I don’t look great, I don’t look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that’s pushing it.’ – Donna Air
‘I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.’ – Jay Nixon
‘My dad had a stroke. It’s one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing ‘L.A. Law,’ and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn’t a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.’ – Corbin Bernsen
‘Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn’t an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn’t doing enough for me.’ – Tibor Fischer
‘I can’t play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out.’ – Michael Cudlitz
‘Everyone thinks they can cure stress by adding to their schedule, like going to yoga. Oh, great – one more thing to feel guilty about when you can’t do it.’ – Evangeline Lilly
‘I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.’ – Cate Blanchett
‘Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.’ – Mike Love
‘Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That’s me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).’ – Rick Perlstein
‘I promise you, ABBA will never reform – I couldn’t bear the stress of disappointing everyone.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus
‘Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music – Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his ‘Various Positions’ – and let your mind cool down. Soon you’ll forget there’s a word called ‘stress.” – Pico Iyer
‘The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you’re making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.’ – Tom Watson
‘You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can’t anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won’t be able to cut it, either.’ – James Spithill
‘People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.’ – Margot Robbie
‘There’s a difference between stress and pressure.’ – Spike Jonze
‘The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents – and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.’ – Michael Hastings
‘Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.’ – Martin Seligman
‘Both ‘Consenting Adults’ and ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ revolve around the economic stresses of the ’90s. They are about what people do when they’re pushed against that wall, and how they’re manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.’ – Kevin Spacey
‘Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.’ – Siri Hustvedt
‘Some stresses are unavoidable – it’s just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don’t really like or drive me crazy.’ – Dan Hill
‘If you’re on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there’s more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.’ – Damien Chazelle
‘My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.’ – Damien Chazelle
‘What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don’t know how to do.’ – Ruth Reichl
‘My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.’ – Pierce Brown
‘The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.’ – Ben Bernanke
‘I grew up sort of lower working class. And I just didn’t want to have the money struggles that my parents had. You know, I could just – as loving an environment I grew up in – and I grew up in a great home, a very loving home – but, you know, we had that stress. We had that stress in our life.’ – Elizabeth Banks
‘It’s just a blessing from above. I can’t stress that enough, because I don’t feel like it’s anything that I’ve done. For me to say, ‘Well, it’s because of this, this and that is why I’ve been able to play,’ it’s just a lie. I couldn’t tell you why.’ – D’Brickashaw Ferguson
‘In my lab, we’re finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres.’ – Elizabeth Blackburn
‘Exercise mitigates the effects of stress – and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres.’ – Elizabeth Blackburn
‘Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.’ – Elizabeth Blackburn
‘In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres.’ – Elizabeth Blackburn
‘There’s nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.’ – Jen Lancaster
‘The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.’ – Joel Salatin
‘The doctor gave me several warnings: Never tell anyone unless necessary, because I might be ostracized. Call it ‘seizure disorder,’ not epilepsy, because fewer people would be frightened. Try to choose a profession as free from stress as possible.’ – Kurt Eichenwald
‘I’m learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You’ve got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it’s totally predictable.’ – Peter Beard
‘When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health.’ – Debbie Ford
‘Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.’ – Joel Fuhrman
‘I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.’ – Larry Page
‘Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, ‘You’re under a lot of stress.’ Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.’ – Barry Marshall
‘Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one’s life.’ – Barry Marshall
‘You can always find stress in someone’s life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it’s, ‘Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.” – Barry Marshall
‘Everything that’s supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there’s a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.’ – Barry Marshall
‘I have friends with post-traumatic stress – friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.’ – Phil Klay
‘With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don’t have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you’re restricted to what happened.’ – Phil Klay
‘Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are – their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.’ – Aaron Lazar
‘When you’re under stress, your immune system doesn’t work as well.’ – Bob McNair
”The New Black Yoga’ originally was born from a film that I had made prior called ‘Black Yoga.’ And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.’ – Rashid Johnson
‘For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress – the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.’ – Adam Mansbach
‘Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that’s OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it’s going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don’t do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.’ – Iris Apfel
‘When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.’ – David Hallberg
‘Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They’re a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They’re a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.’ – Jon Evans
‘Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful – I’m not sure I’d recommend it for anyone who can’t handle the extreme stress.’ – Naval Ravikant
‘I live an hour from NASA’s HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.’ – Ellen Stofan
‘The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.’ – Ellen Key
‘I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.’ – Michael Masser
‘The majority of autists – as well as their parents – seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.’ – Nikolaas Tinbergen
‘Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions – of a culturally determined stress.’ – Nikolaas Tinbergen
‘I promise you, the gym has taken away so much of my stress. It has helped calm me down.’ – Khloe Kardashian
‘I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora’s salespeople.’ – Andrea Seigel
‘I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.’ – John Corey Whaley
‘Our brains are wired such that it’s difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn’t prolonged, it’s harmless.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘Taking time to contemplate what you’re grateful for isn’t merely the ‘right’ thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.’ – Travis Bradberry
”What if?’ statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘It’s difficult to know when to set boundaries around your health at work because the decline is so gradual. Allowing stress to build up, losing sleep, and sitting all day without exercising all add up.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy – and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘Chewing gum actually lowers your cortisol levels, the hormone responsible for stress. But chewing gum doesn’t just reduce stress, it also makes you more alert and improves your performance in memory-oriented tasks. It does so by increasing the blood flow to your brain and alerting your senses.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn’t have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn’t be more grateful.’ – O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
‘Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you’ve got all week, work hard, work super-hard to take it to the next level every week. And when you feel like you got to the point where you want to be, you definitely need the time to go out, relax, have a good time, take all the stress off it.’ – Rob Gronkowski
‘I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, ‘Don’t stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.” – Vanessa Lachey
‘I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I’m shooting, it’s even more – I don’t know if it has to do with stress or with creation.’ – Emmanuel Lubezki
‘Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don’t know how to dress myself. I’m short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don’t really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, ‘Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.” – Rachel Bloom
‘In ‘Shadow Tag,’ Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.’ – Alan Cheuse
‘There’s always very high tension with dance auditions! You’re in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you’ll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.’ – Sarah Hay
‘While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.’ – Michael Greger
‘High levels of stress can lead to weakened immunity, rendering animals much more susceptible to disease. This makes the average poultry factory farm a hotbed for outbreaks of avian flu.’ – Michael Greger
‘When you win a big title like the French Open, it’s tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it’s so much stress and emotion, so many people around – and then it’s completely empty.’ – Stan Wawrinka
‘Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.’ – H. P. Lovecraft
‘I don’t stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life.’ – Monica Bellucci
‘My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you’d say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.’ – Jerry Hall
‘I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work – in fact, very hard work – mixed with very heavy doses of patience.’ – Alia Atkinson
‘Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life’s challenges. Everything from my studies to my father’s death was eased by my practice of it.’ – Christy Turlington
‘I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I’ve been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found ‘Restrepo’ to be unbelievably useful.’ – Damian Lewis
‘I look forward to physical activity; it’s a release from stress and a nice distraction. It puts me in a better mood. I never used to take classes before, but then I tore my plantar fascia so I couldn’t run. I started taking SoulCycle classes, which I know are polarizing. People have strong opinions. Even though I can run again, I still go.’ – Ellie Kemper
‘I feel very much aware of my mortality. I’m here, and then I’m not. It’s the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it’s gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I’m not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn’t exist.’ – Brie Larson
‘I don’t know if it’s a male thing, but I’ve always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.’ – George Packer
‘Everybody knows when you’re a struggling family; you don’t really know it when you’re a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there’s, like, this happiness.’ – Bonnie Hunt
‘Thousands of our post-9/11 veterans carry the invisible burden of post-traumatic stress, and there is an overwhelming need to expand the available treatment options.’ – Ron DeSantis
‘Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America’s infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy.’ – John Delaney
‘We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.’ – Mother Angelica
‘Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It’s a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.’ – Paul Greengrass
‘I tune it all out because if I let other people’s stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.’ – Simone Biles
‘I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.’ – Renato Dulbecco
‘Sport is a great way to keep fit. It’s a stress reliever.’ – Katie Taylor
‘I love inspiring people, and I love making good music, but I don’t stress about it. I don’t think I’m ever going to win a Grammy, and I’m OK with that.’ – Selena Gomez
‘I once started a small business when I got out of college and enjoyed the stress of making it work. High-stress situations clear my head, and I love the challenge of getting along with many different kinds of people. I’m scared of routine.’ – Tom Reiss
‘I notice that if there are some times I’ve been stressed, because I’m human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you’re a happy mom so they can be happy.’ – Britney Spears
‘Ivanka Trump is a close friend and just a wonderful person, mother, and businesswoman. Everyone thinks she has it all, but she always stresses that there is no such thing.’ – Georgina Bloomberg
‘The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people’s rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power – and the two are mutually contradictory.’ – Sun Yat-sen
‘I think the stress of being No. 1 in the world is more of a motivating factor for me just because I don’t want to lose it.’ – Jason Day
‘I’ve been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.’ – Jason Day
‘The more you change and stress the body the quicker it’s going to adapt and change.’ – Jillian Michaels
‘I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress – the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.’ – Ron Howard
‘I didn’t train for powerlifting. I trained as a bodybuilder. I had to train to stress the muscle and not because of what was on the bar. I think my strategy was a good one because I have no aches, pains, or lingering injuries from training today. I feel great.’ – Lee Haney
‘Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man’s animal instincts and provoke irrational and socially disruptive behavior among the less stable individuals in the maddening crowd.’ – Norman Borlaug
‘I don’t feel the pressure and stress of having to be a comic in a club every night. I accomplished a lot of things; I did lot of things, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out when I am home with my son.’ – Kevin Nealon
‘Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it’s specific people on the leadership who don’t have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.’ – Brad Feld
‘While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.’ – Brad Feld
‘I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I’m a very straightforward person.’ – Dawn Steel
‘We can talk and get feedback about our videos directly from some of our biggest fans. We can’t stress the importance of that connection enough.’ – Kian Lawley
‘Early in my career, I didn’t want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else – including myself – because I couldn’t give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.’ – John Rampton
‘Whether you write down your to-do lists in a notebook or use a tool like Evernote, to-do lists can be a real life-saver, since it reduces the stress of trying to remember things like a meeting or what you need to pick up at the grocery store.’ – John Rampton
‘The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?’ – Christina Milian
‘I love to work out. It’s one of the ways I love to relieve stress.’ – Jenna Dewan
‘With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.’ – Song Hye-kyo
‘There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.’ – Shawn Mendes
‘When I met my Thai fans at the airport, all my stress went away. I don’t feel lonely. I have friends like Kwang Soo to keep me company, and my fans make me feel loved.’ – Song Joong-ki
‘I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I’m under a lot of stress.’ – Kate Micucci
‘I am an over-thinker and tend to stress a lot.’ – Tiger Shroff
‘I have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.’ – Craig Sager
‘If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.’ – Park Shin-hye
‘I want to continue acting as long as I can because being on the sets is a big stress buster for me. I can’t possibly think of stopping my visits to the sets because I’m old.’ – Akkineni Nagarjuna
‘My coaches and I always stress getting better and working on all aspects, so I’m ready to fight and take it to the next level.’ – Robbie Lawler
‘Everything outside doesn’t matter when I’m on the court; it’s just me and nothing else. Family problems, school, what happened to my father, all the stress goes away.’ – Kawhi Leonard
‘I always work with a coach. That’s just a personal thing that I like to do. During interviews, you’ll hear more of my accent, and I’ll stress the wrong words.’ – Elodie Yung
‘My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family.’ – Stellan Skarsgard
‘I really personalized the pressure to make a good ‘Toy Story’ film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.’ – Lee Unkrich
‘When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything that keeps them from being played with gives them stress – things like getting lost, getting broken.’ – Lee Unkrich
‘There’s this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that’s only going to happen if you feel the person who’s writing the book or the people in the TV show aren’t holding back.’ – Jay Asher
‘When we forgive someone, it doesn’t excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it’s in our own self-interest.’ – Dean Ornish
‘Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.’ – Dean Ornish
‘Intimacy and community buffer stress.’ – Dean Ornish
‘When you’re feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.’ – Dean Ornish
‘Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.’ – John Ross Bowie
‘Often, when you’re growing up, you don’t know what’s wrong. We don’t talk openly enough about mental illness. How do you know – especially today with the incredibly high stress teens are put under during high school – if you have depression or if you have a mental illness or if you have anxiety? You don’t know, because you’ve never seen it.’ – Katherine Langford
‘On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I’m lucky because I come from a different source point.’ – Forest Whitaker
‘As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.’ – Maz Jobrani
‘I have been working with people on an individual basis for years to help them break habits and deal with anxiety. I’ve helped people with everything from fears, phobias, and stress right the way through to eczema – anything that is governed by our psyche and inner psychology.’ – Keith Barry
‘I think one of the reasons all the comics I worked with dropped off the log so early, and a lot of them did – Tony Hancock, Frankie, Sid James, it’s dreadful really – was the stress. You can only be as good or better than the last show, and there’s the permanent aggro of hoping you get the right writers and the right material.’ – June Whitfield
‘I’m still finding my feet in many ways as a performer. I’m not an extrovert, and certainly the attention isn’t what drew me to it, and I find that quite jarring at times. I used to stress a lot about shows and get palpitations before shows, but eventually you learn to love it, and it is a thrill.’ – Hozier
‘I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.’ – Jack Ramsay
‘Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn’t gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch ‘Spongebob.” – Kelsea Ballerini
‘It’s your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home.’ – Ryan Holiday
‘When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.’ – Karen Robards
‘I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.’ – Travis Kalanick
‘Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.’ – Andrew Solomon
‘If you really want something, it’s nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something – you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.’ – Laura Harrier
‘There is one thing I should say, and it’s important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind – lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.’ – Julie Andrews
‘I’m not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing… it’s just like, what’s the point?’ – Joanna Krupa
‘I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.’ – Chris Sacca
‘Power projects are differently placed to road projects. There’s difference stress across different companies across different groups based on their leverage levels.’ – Chanda Kochhar
‘That’s why I got into Pilates: because I can reduce the stress and impact in my joints while still being able to increase strength and flexibility, and it’s going to pay dividends.’ – Jake Arrieta
‘My flexibility is probably my No. 1 asset. Obviously we need to have a strong shoulder, strong scapula, strong lats, and a durable elbow to have longevity as a pitcher, but being mobile in the hips and flexible in the hamstrings takes so much pressure and stress off of my arm.’ – Jake Arrieta
‘I need to stress that I could not be more supportive of great teachers and great teaching, no matter what kind of delivery vehicle they are teaching through. We have to support great teachers. They just have to be freed up to do what they do best.’ – Betsy DeVos
‘I’m not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. It would make me crack.’ – Jessica Williams
‘Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I’m being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was – there were some dark days.’ – Valerie Plame
‘In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.’ – Valerie Plame
‘That’s kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure.’ – Chauncey Billups
‘Something I can’t stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It’s the only way to find out what work is really like when you’re figuring out what path to take and to get an understanding of what it takes to achieve your career ambitions.’ – Jameela Jamil
‘I find that if I don’t have enough physical activity in life, I don’t do as well with anything else in my life. It’s stress relief; it’s good health. It’s fun. It’s alone time, for the most part.’ – Betsy Hodges
‘I don’t allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.’ – Cobie Smulders
‘In interviews, I never wanted to play into the myth of, ‘Yeah, I was sitting there doing nothing, and then made ‘Slacker.” No. I’d been making shorts, a Super-8 feature, and running a film society. I always try to stress to people that there’s a lot of work involved and years of preparation. But no one wants to hear that part.’ – Richard Linklater
‘I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.’ – Paul Rudd
‘I am happy to be running a public sector bank. In times of stress, most people will always have an account with us, so, to the extent that it gives stability and faith for the people and because banking is a business of trust, it is a major advantage we have.’ – Arundhati Bhattacharya
‘I take all the stress on myself so everyone else can work without stress.’ – Chanda Kochhar
‘When you go in to get your car serviced, they plug it in and tell you everything that happened for the last six months. I walk in and get a stress test from my doctor, and they make a conclusion based off of that. That doesn’t make sense to me. I would much prefer to have all of the data about myself and less about my car.’ – Steve Mollenkopf
‘I always remind my team to take a step back and ask themselves, ‘Why are we doing this?’ For us, 100% of the time, it is to better serve our patients, consumers, and customers. This is a great question to come back to when your team is losing focus; it reduces stress and mobilizes people to get excited about the collective possibility.’ – Sandra E. Peterson
‘Banks should decide on dividend increases and share buybacks after receiving the results of stress tests, when they know how much capital regulators wish them to hold.’ – James P. Gorman
‘I can’t stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing really gave me the confidence to do it.’ – Harry Dean Stanton
‘It’s funny, because even though on a drama like ‘Picket Fences’ those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there’s a green screen and there’s nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all this dialogue, it’s so much more difficult.’ – Holly Marie Combs
‘I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.’ – Judy Sheindlin
‘I’m conscious of the way I live and do things every day that nourish my body. I eat well, I work out, I try to manage stress, I get a good sleep in, and together, that does wonders.’ – Ella Woodward
‘I’ve been thinking a lot about the speed and spectacle in today’s fashion industry, because they seem to mirror stresses in other creative fields.’ – Anna Wintour
‘I guess I don’t really let the stress of my family weigh on my career, weigh on my options anymore, which I think we all need freedom from.’ – Farrah Abraham
‘Loss-absorbing capacity among banks is substantially higher as a result of both regulatory requirements and stress testing exercises.’ – Jerome Powell
‘It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I’m possessed.’ – Eliot Sumner
‘Money definitely doesn’t stress me out. I really don’t care about money… I probably should a little more.’ – Frankie Ballard
‘It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.’ – Frankie Ballard
‘Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.’ – Om Malik
‘My career began somewhat accidentally. In the 1960s, I started a practice in the fledgling field of mind-body healing. Around that time, it was completely in its infancy. I had been developing a protocol to use body awareness as a tool for stress reduction.’ – Peter A. Levine
‘While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.’ – Peter A. Levine
‘A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.’ – Jocko Willink
‘Poorly planned and stressful vacations eliminate the positive benefit of time away. The less the stress, the more likely you will experience a positive benefit from the time off. A positive, well-managed vacation can make you happier and less stressed, and you can return with more energy at work and with more meaning in your life.’ – Shawn Achor
‘Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress.’ – Shawn Achor
‘I think it’s really important to not stress out about anything.’ – Anna Ewers
‘Reality shows can put a lot of stress on you.’ – Karishma Tanna
‘We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren’t problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They’d get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.’ – Daniel Levitin
‘TRP ratings affect me. There are times when the ratings are so low that we feel that we could have done something more. But that is about it. I don’t stress over it too much.’ – Kratika Sengar
‘I write about what’s on my mind. It’s like a stress reliever.’ – Lauren Alaina
‘If you think too far ahead, then it’ll just stress you out.’ – Laurie Hernandez
‘All Western cities face significant challenges on social integration. Our populations are booming, but social integration is not keeping pace. Rapid growth is a sign of our success, but it also puts stress on housing, infrastructure – and on communities.’ – Sadiq Khan
‘Travelling doesn’t stress me, since adequate 10-hour sleep post-travel is sufficient for me.’ – Anushka Shetty
‘Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.’ – John Lithgow
‘I have to say that you don’t really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.’ – Harper Reed
‘Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.’ – Harper Reed
‘I can’t stress it enough that we genuinely love ‘The Room.’ Like I said, I’ve seen it more than any other movie that’s ever been made, and it gets to a point where if a movie is that watchable, when can we just call it a good movie?’ – Dave Franco
‘I’m a dog lover. With the holidays, everything gets a little bit hectic. There’s a lot on your mind, and maybe you forget that your animals also feel that stress as well. So try to keep them on the same routine; try to keep the chocolate out of their mouth.’ – Justin Hartley
‘We stress out over things we can’t control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.’ – Christen Press
‘I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn’t score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.’ – Christen Press
‘Here’s my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don’t need to be reminded of political divisions.’ – Jeanine Pirro
‘Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.’ – Stan Wawrinka
‘In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.’ – Charles Dallara
‘I don’t stress at all. When other people say, ‘I’m having a bad day,’ I ask, ‘How can you have a bad day for the entire 24 hours, or even 12 or eight hours?’ Something bad might happen, but that can’t make the entire day bad.’ – Cloris Leachman
‘The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.’ – Sharan Burrow
‘I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.’ – Adam Rippon
‘Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you’ve worked so hard to build. It’s a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress.’ – Emily V. Gordon
‘Marriage, even a happy and successful one, can be extremely stressful, but that stress is worth it if you’re marrying the best person for you.’ – Emily V. Gordon
‘I don’t even remember how many times I’ve sprained my ankle. I’ve had stress fractures galore and torn my PCL. You just take a little time off if you have the time, and if not, you keep training until you can take the time off.’ – Mirai Nagasu
‘When I come home from training, my attention immediately has to focus on my school courses, which helps keep the stress level balanced. I mostly balance both by drinking a lot of coffee and making sure I time manage well, which doesn’t happen all the time, especially during finals week.’ – Mirai Nagasu
‘With how much stress I have every day in the gym, you need a little time to get out and just be whoever you want to be.’ – Sam Mikulak
‘I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.’ – Carl Hart
‘Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.’ – Jenna Wortham
‘When I was in the closet, I had so much pressure on my shoulders. When I came out, that was actually the first moment I felt relieved of those stresses. It really showed in my skiing.’ – Gus Kenworthy
‘I had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I’m afraid we’re going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I’ve had that dream a long time.’ – Jon Watts
‘I’m someone who’s quite anxious and stresses out a lot and gives the impression that I’m laid back.’ – Adeel Akhtar
‘I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything – it’s really similar to making music for a show like ‘Hannibal.’ It’s like cooking; it’s just like owning a restaurant.’ – Brian Reitzell
‘I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there’s joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.’ – David Lowery
‘At the end of the day, most parents have more in common with their teens than they realize. Let’s retire the bootstrap mentality and stop telling our teens that their stress is self-imposed.’ – Rachel Simmons
‘As a society, we have this perception that women are emotional. The research, however, tells us that, on trading floors, that poor risk rises and falls with testosterone levels, and these trading floors are 85 percent, 90 percent male, and these gentlemen tend, under periods of stress, to show off for each other. That’s dangerous.’ – Sallie Krawcheck
”Power breaking,’ also called Hanmadang – which means something like celebration or festival in Korean – involves breaking large amounts of wood, concrete, granite, and the like with specific hand and foot techniques. Practitioners rely on repeated resistance training and the idea that, over time, the body can adapt to stress.’ – Mary Pilon
‘Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.’ – Aja Brown
‘I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a film about an ‘around the world’ yacht race with a friend, and we spent nine months on a yacht. The film was about how people get on in confined spaces under extreme stress.’ – Roger Deakins
‘If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I’ve been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.’ – Columbus Short
‘I’ve always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it’s a pretty damn good life.’ – Joe R. Lansdale
‘I got ‘Scandal,’ and that was, far and away, the biggest deal that had happened in my career. Simultaneously, the stress from planning my wedding and being in the public eye for the first time, combined with genetics – I got the diagnosis that I had psoriasis, and I was completely embarrassed and ashamed. I felt like a lesser person.’ – Katie Lowes
‘I exercise in the gym about three times a week. I vary the workout every time, but I’ll always do some type of circuit work with weights. It gets my heart rate up without putting too much stress on my knees, which for some reason seem to be older than the rest of my body.’ – Edwin Catmull
‘One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories.’ – Kameron Hurley
‘The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.’ – John F. Kerry
‘I voted against H.R. 4293, the Stress Test Improvement Act of 2017, which would modify the regulatory oversight of certain financial institutions in a way that is likely to expose our economy to greater risk.’ – Seth Moulton
‘As a woman, sometimes we stress on always being of the moment, and that is a lot of pressure, especially for young girls.’ – Coco Rocha
‘Don’t stress over mean-girl antics.’ – Hannah Bronfman
‘The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.’ – Joanna Coles
‘I really think you get the jobs you’re supposed to get. And don’t stress over the jobs that you don’t. That would have saved me so many tears and so much frustration.’ – Constance Zimmer
‘I can’t stand adversity and stress and drama and tension. I can’t function in that environment. If I have anything to say about it, we’re going to get rid of it so that everyone can just relax and have a good time.’ – LaChanze
‘My skin really reacts to stress.’ – Madelaine Petsch
‘It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don’t think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.’ – Chris Borland
‘I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing my life. It’s crazy to say it, but even if football was this dangerous thing, it was a place where I could focus all my energy. I’m sure it’s not the healthiest thing to direct stress from football into football, but that’s basically what I did.’ – Chris Borland
‘My passion is to help people live lives with less stress.’ – Arianna Huffington
‘Women process stress differently. If we can change the workplace culture to make it more welcoming for women, we’re also going to improve behavior, and we’re going to improve outcomes.’ – Arianna Huffington
‘Trump is a systemic stress test.’ – Charles Krauthammer
‘There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple.’ – Grace Potter
‘I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.’ – Kurt Vile
‘Our job, which Congress gave us, was to protect consumers. That work needs to be done in our communities for people regardless of what happens with elections, regardless of what happens with particular people and particular offices, and that is something that I have tried to stress at my agency.’ – Richard Cordray
‘There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you.’ – Emma Healey
‘Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy.’ – Alexandra Bracken
‘White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.’ – Robin DiAngelo
‘White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.’ – Robin DiAngelo
‘I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a ‘stress demonstrator’ to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.’ – Malcolm Nance
‘To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of ‘stress and duress’ techniques. The military’s encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture.’ – Malcolm Nance
‘My mom has passed down that you can be chic and look beautiful, and you don’t have to break the bank. I grew up like that. She also taught me I don’t have to stress all the time. She’s always been a go-with-the-flow type of woman; that’s how she raised us, and I find that’s how I’m raising my little girls now.’ – Ayesha Curry
‘As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.’ – Joanna Scott
‘I was born with a heart murmur. When I was 21, the stress of the career and traveling – the lack of sleep and just not eating right – had taken its toll. Our schedules had been pretty crazy for about three years, and there was no rest at all. So in order to continue on and, you know, have a life, I had to fix it.’ – Brian Littrell
‘Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it’s actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.’ – Donovan
‘When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don’t progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.’ – Jen Sincero
‘Owens may not be my real last name, but it’s close as it gets, because it’s my son’s name, Owen. That’s why I picked that name, and Kevin Owens is who I am. I can’t stress that enough.’ – Kevin Owens
‘Making fitness a priority will energize you, make you look and feel better, and help diffuse stress.’ – Mary Helen Bowers
‘Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can’t stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That’s true on record and on stage.’ – Ry Cooder
‘Walking is great because it’s an amazing exercise, and it also helps to clear your head and relieve any built-up stress before the work day begins.’ – David Kirsch
‘My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It’s a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.’ – NF
‘When you’re doing a television production, or you’re with a company, there is some stress; there is pressure to perform, and it’s a little tougher, but it also comes with the benefits of having huge television exposure and wrestling in front of a bigger crowd.’ – Matt Hardy
‘I think, before I had money, I believed that money would solve my problems, that it would give me power and I wouldn’t have financial stress anymore, and it would completely change my life. And then, when I had money, it changed a lot of things, but it didn’t change the way I felt inside at all.’ – Molly Bloom
‘The only thing I’ve got is that the ring fingers on both my hands have a little arthritis in each. It’s a worn out joint because of too much exertion and stress. But it doesn’t affect my playing, which is good.’ – Roger Taylor
‘Being ill-prepared and unequipped to deal with life’s inevitable challenges leaves us vulnerable to the dangerous effects of stress.’ – Amy Morin
‘Stress impacts the way we think, feel, and behave. It often leads to a negative, self-perpetuating cycle that is hard to escape.’ – Amy Morin
‘Proactively working to develop mental strength increases your resilience to stress and reduces the toll it takes on you both physically and mentally.’ – Amy Morin
‘Being stuck in a rut can kill your creativity, stress you out, and zap your productivity. Doing the same thing over and over again causes your days to blend together.’ – Amy Morin
‘I want to stress to people to be themselves instead of trying to be like others.’ – Karrueche Tran
‘I get to a certain point where I just get so tired that I keep going. It creates a positive feedback loop in some ways – the more stress and work I put on me, the more stress and work I can deal with.’ – David Hogg
‘I like to let my skin breathe, I don’t like to stress it out. I don’t like to put it through very much.’ – Hari Nef
‘It’s no secret the benefits of yoga include but are not limited to a healthy body, calm mind, reduced stress, feeling of connectivity with self and the world, increased awareness and sensitivity, and an overall feeling of awesomeness.’ – Tara Stiles
‘Yoga can get at the roots of issues that cause behaviors leading to obesity, heart disease, and stress.’ – Tara Stiles
‘Stress happens. In different ways, we all hold unnecessary tension in our bodies all day long. Shoulders, neck, wrists, hips, hamstrings, back, oh my!’ – Tara Stiles
‘Workouts, for me, are more about stress relief and having more energy to do the things I need to do. That’s a much healthier way of approaching exercise. All of those other things will come if you commit to it. It really is about being a happy person.’ – Anna Kaiser
‘I’m always trying to feel less stress.’ – Amanda Knox
‘I always wanted to see my parents without any stress and accordingly knocked every audition for an opportunity.’ – Vijay Deverakonda
‘The thing I stress to my fans is that I’ve been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.’ – Machine Gun Kelly
‘A few years ago, I would let it get to me. But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don’t have any stress, I’m good.’ – Raheem Sterling
‘From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.’ – David Viscott
‘As I understand from the real military personnel who I’ve had the opportunity to speak to over the last few years, humor is very much used to diffuse stress. I think that if they were to keep it as serious as the situations often are, there would be a lot more nervous breakdowns.’ – Daniela Ruah
‘People die millionaires. All your life, you’re gonna stress money?’ – Joey Diaz
‘One of the biggest ways to level the playing field is to give all young people the same context on what opportunities are out there. And that means touching on some of the questions that are a little taboo in society: How much money do you make? What are your stresses? What would you do differently if you could?’ – Sal Khan
‘My brother was the first to be home-schooled, and one reason they home-schooled me was so he wouldn’t get jealous. Another thing is my mom noticed that I would stress out a lot about school. I would ask my teacher how good my grades were and think about that all the time.’ – Rich Brian
‘What fascinates me about London is its multi-ethnicity, the coexistence of cultures and religions, but I do not see myself living here for very long. It’s too big, too much stress, too much of a metropolis.’ – Alvaro Morata
‘I think it’s very important to be mindful of your body and actually listen to it. If I’m craving a certain kind of food, I’ll have, but I notice when I’m full. It’s kind of like a logical diet. I think when people go on restrictive diets, they put too much stress on themselves, which might make them prone to bingeing.’ – Samara Weaving
‘When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you’re the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn’t want.’ – Robyn
‘Stress is real, and you never know what a person is going through behind the camera.’ – Soulja Boy
‘I feel like it’s big now with the passing of Mac Miller. Rest in peace, Mac Miller, who was a good friend of mine. That just showed people, like, it could happen to anybody. Just because you have fame or money, you’re not immune to negativity and depression and stress.’ – Soulja Boy
‘School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn’t like having to do work that I didn’t care about.’ – Rex Orange County
‘For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would meet people, I was kind of standoffish. That was because I was in a bit of a funk.’ – Tom Green
‘I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I’m on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I’m dying inside – I’m extremely stressed, but I do try, and… well, I don’t try. I think it’s my natural reaction to not externalize things.’ – Yorgos Lanthimos
‘Don’t get me wrong: I’m a sucker for weddings. I’ll get misty-eyed watching the union of two perfect strangers. But in some cases – and I need to stress some cases – I feel like we’re getting blindsided by the spectacle of it all.’ – Dan Levy
‘When I started filming ‘2 Broke Girls,’ I actually was broke, so I was eating all the junk food they kept on set. But then I developed a skin rash that lasted over six months. The doctors said that it was due to stress, my diet, and lack of exercise.’ – Beth Behrs
‘My coach has taught me since 5 years old, and he stresses not just the quality of training but the mental part. Technique and the mental game have to mesh, balance.’ – Valentina Shevchenko
‘Generally, we have competed with ourselves… because I feel that if I compete against somebody, it causes stress. I don’t want the process of growth to be stressful.’ – Dilip Shanghvi
‘There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed.’ – Farhan Akhtar
‘I don’t stress too much on things, be it failure or success.’ – Rana Daggubati
‘If I can give something to the next generation, I want to give a message of positivity, to believe in themselves, because I think the world has just a lot of unnecessary stresses to be a certain way, look a certain way, do certain things.’ – Amber Liu
‘Food is a party; it’s exciting. It should be a source of entertainment and nourishment. And just do everything you can to not let food become anything but fun. Let it be a source of pleasure, not anxiety or neuroses or stress.’ – Andrew W.K.
‘Shopping stresses me out.’ – Emilie de Ravin
‘The people in my family couldn’t adjust to the political atmosphere around me. I didn’t want my political ambitions to cause stress or trauma for my family. I didn’t want any name, fame, or money at the cost of my family.’ – Govinda
‘It’s my life’s aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there’s so much stress that often you don’t even pay attention to the luxuries.’ – Parineeti Chopra
‘There’s such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.’ – Denzel Curry
‘The thing is, you don’t ever want to have pressure turn to stress.’ – Karl-Anthony Towns
‘I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that’s the only channel it has.’ – Jane Fallon
‘It stresses me out if I mess up.’ – Wilfried Zaha
‘There’s a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it’s all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.’ – Mark Henry
‘I have always promised myself and my wife that when I don’t enjoy it anymore, or I can’t handle the stress and the pressure that comes with having such a high-profile and top job – or my energy levels starts to fail me, or my enthusiasm starts to be dented – I won’t prolong my career longer than I feel I should.’ – Roy Hodgson
‘I changed my car completely – I was in a sports car and changed to a Jeep, which is more stable for the back and doesn’t put too much stress on it.’ – Jack Rodwell
‘Stress come with life, period, bro.’ – YG
‘I feel like when you successful, it’s more stress ’cause it’s more stuff you dealin’ with.’ – YG
‘Being an NBA player, a lot of stress comes with that: realizing there’s a lot of pressure on me and accepting that for what it is, realizing that I might need help, I might need somebody to talk to, accepting that there’s nothing wrong with that.’ – Jahlil Okafor
‘I think in any relationship in this industry, there’s a stress on relationships. I think that’s reality, but in no way do I think that if a relationship is meant to be together and a marriage is meant to be together, that anything like a show or being in this industry can change that.’ – Evan Ross
‘One thing I’ve told people with the holidays, cooking in particular – don’t make something that stresses you out. If there’s something you’re intimidated to make, maybe just don’t make it.’ – Haylie Duff
‘Islam, for example, like so many other faiths, stresses the importance of mutual solidarity with our fellow man.’ – Mehdi Hasan
‘I actually like working out. It’s such a stress reliever when you’re just focusing on yourself and not thinking about anything else except the music and your body.’ – Joan Smalls
‘I think, mentally, you sometimes need a break. But for me, my body is built so that if I don’t work out, that’s when I put more stress on my body and get more tired.’ – Ichiro Suzuki
‘By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.’ – Katelyn Ohashi
‘I deliberately decided not to go on Twitter. I’ve read about how much stress it can cause. I don’t think it’s healthy.’ – David Jason
‘Odisha faces natural calamities almost every year. The assistance we get from the Centre is mostly for temporary restoration of infrastructure. We have to spend a lot from state’s own funds to work for the long-term. This puts too much stress on our finances. Precisely for this reason, Odisha should be considered for special category status.’ – Naveen Patnaik
‘The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.’ – Lacey Evans
‘I didn’t do so well at ‘Saturday Night Live.’ It was a very hard experience for me, for a lot of reasons that have to do with the kind of person I am and the personal issues I had at the time. I was very alone in New York, and the show has a lot of stress related to it.’ – Bob Odenkirk
‘It’s easy for especially NBA players to get caught up in the stress of the job, to get caught up in negativity and in what other people think, and it’s hard, but the best way to live is to keep things simple and enjoy every day.’ – Malcolm Brogdon
‘When my dad passed away, I was under a lot of stress with planning a funeral, trying to pick out just the right flowers and pictures, and simply trying to find the right way to say goodbye.’ – Natalya Neidhart
‘I prefer comedy, as I have to act while playing a gangster. I have to put in a lot of effort to turn into a gangster, as I am not like that in real life. In comedy, one doesn’t have to take up such stress.’ – Pankaj Tripathi
‘It’s been a journey of great stress and awakening. I have given my blood sweat and tears to ‘Padmavati.” – Sanjay Leela Bhansali
‘Aside from being a fighter, I am a relaxed person. It is a lifestyle thing for me. I don’t stress too much.’ – Urijah Faber
‘The physical aspects of the game, it’s probably the highlight for me. It’s a way for me to get a lot of anger and stress off of my shoulders.’ – Brian Banks
‘Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.’ – Zoey Tur
‘Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.’ – Mya
‘I try not to take pressure because that it just stresses you out.’ – Mithila Palkar
‘I’m trying to find a home that I can come home to, and there’s no stress or pressure to be scared to be in your own house.’ – Charles Bradley
‘That would be something I would stress the most to any artist – is, number one, don’t ever allow, you know, success or whatever you want to call it to determine your worth as an artist or as a person. That’s number one. And number two, do it because you love it.’ – Beth Hart
‘Now in the digital age, in the age of social media, all of the wrestling audiences are so much more connected. I cannot stress that enough, how much more connected wresting audiences are around the world.’ – Jeff Jarrett
‘My new year’s resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I’m going to be in five years so often.’ – Lzzy Hale
‘I got shingles on the day of the EU referendum. It’s good to see that my stress has got worse as I’ve got older and that now there is a physical element to it!’ – Jon Richardson
‘I like to go for a run – it really clears my head and releases any stress from the day.’ – Jessica Mauboy
‘No matter how much you train, you can’t replicate the stresses that the body takes when it’s in a competitive environment.’ – Johanna Konta
‘There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.’ – Sam Fender
‘Glute bridges make sure my hips are staying in line. Making sure that I’m not putting added stress on the hamstrings, hip flexors, or groin. Being able to stabilize the hips is pretty much the center of playing football, so you can stay healthy.’ – Zach Ertz
‘Impact is such a fun place to work, I enjoy it so much I can’t stress that enough.’ – Tessa Blanchard
‘The key to a good relationship is how you repair the stress fractures.’ – Chris Sullivan
‘Just because I have to deal with the stress and pressure and nerves of elite sport every day, it doesn’t mean it all comes easily. I have worked hard at the mental side of my game.’ – Jos Buttler
‘If you’re left to scream and scream day after day, your levels of cortisol remain high, and you develop a slight immunity to your own stress, so what you find is babies who have been neglected tend to become risk-takers.’ – Andrea Leadsom
‘For a fast bowler, not much stress goes through my body.’ – James Anderson
‘I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won’t do it how I like them. But the biggest thing is that I don’t like to stress about my match all morning. Twenty minutes before, I’ll sit down and think about the game plan and warm up. And then I just play.’ – Madison Keys
‘If it’s a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill’s ‘Forgive Them Father’ the most, especially the harmonies.’ – Grace Chatto
‘If it’s a Clean Bandit-related stress, there are smooth things they play on Classical FM that can help, such as Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings,’ or there is a choral version of it too that is very relaxing.’ – Grace Chatto
‘You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety and stress.’ – Mel Giedroyc
‘I understand the stress of finding quality and affordable childcare while paying high taxes. I also understand that many working moms struggle to make ends meet and balance their family and work life. These moms are the hard-working Americans who want to keep their jobs but also do the best they can for their children.’ – Mercedes Schlapp
‘Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you’re going to pay your next bill. It’s more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.’ – Mike Will Made It
‘This idea that some kids have now in some communities that if they haven’t filled out their college resumes by the time they’re 12, they are going to fail in life, it’s a lot of stress on kids.’ – David Sheff
‘I love how it feels to go into the gym, crank all my favorite music and literally sweat out all of the things that stress me out.’ – Jeannie Mai
‘I stress, worry, get nervous and I start to over-think about a lot of things, but I think a little bit of doubt and nervousness always keeps me on my feet.’ – Vaani Kapoor
‘Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle.’ – Vic Mensa
‘As women, we’re busy. We’re under stress and under pressure, and the expectations are so high for us, so the first thing to go is self-care.’ – Tessa Virtue
‘When we’re choreographing, we’re on the ice five or six hours a day. The setting for your skin is just horrendous – the stress and the competition makeup and the training itself.’ – Tessa Virtue
‘I used to stress out if I wasn’t attaining my goals by their due date, but not anymore.’ – Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
‘Driving on gravel is very demanding. There are lots of movements on the steering wheel which put a lot of stress on my arm and my hand.’ – Robert Kubica
‘Formula One applies stresses to the mind and body that are very extreme.’ – Robert Kubica
‘Stress is a killer.’ – Rosanna Arquette
‘It’s too much of a responsibility, too much stress, and to do justice to Sri in my first film as a director would be really tough. We can’t separate our personal equation and become professionals on the sets. So no, I’m not directing Sri in my first film.’ – Boney Kapoor
‘Some people are just weird when you’re on a plane – it’s the same during a renovation. It stresses them out.’ – Drew Scott
‘I can take stress on myself but I don’t like it when stress comes to my husband or children.’ – Farah Khan
‘For me posting videos on YouTube and interacting with people on Twitter is a great release from the stresses of football.’ – Adebayo Akinfenwa
‘When I worked in financial services, as part of a female-led business, I found that pitching to very male-dominated boards created stress.’ – Gina Miller
‘It’s a lot of stress being a manager – a lot of moving parts.’ – Mathew Knowles
‘When you’re in the moments of greatest stress, those are the most memorable.’ – Miguel McKelvey
‘I can’t stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.’ – Tom Anderson
‘When you have a lot of stress and negativity around you, when you cut that away, you cleanse.’ – Lil Jon
‘I’m here to make people feel like they can release stress, have a good time, be positive and live life.’ – Lil Jon
‘The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio hit records. ‘Make a Gang Starr track and we’ll write our lyrics to that,’ they told me. They couldn’t stress it enough.’ – DJ Premier
‘It’s the pressure of live TV. I also have the added stress of keeping my dental career in check because I am going to be out of the office on Wednesdays and flying back home on Thursdays.’ – Britt Baker
‘I’ve had six different doctors say that I had to take the stress, the pressure out of my life.’ – Paula White
‘It is difficult to be a law enforcement family. You shoulder the stresses and challenges involved in your loved one’s profession. You make a sacrifice, too.’ – William Barr
‘One thing I hear a lot is that people feel less stressed out after they watch ‘Gourmet Makes.’ There’s a transference of their stress onto me.’ – Claire Saffitz
‘Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you’ve got an audience which you’ve got to entertain as well as an audience at home.’ – Paddy McGuinness
‘People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made – and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn’t show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you’re disabled. Don’t even try.’ – Eric Greitens
‘The thing I like to stress about TV is that it’s a team exercise. You really can’t have too much of an ego.’ – Monty Don
‘I had post-traumatic stress from ‘Drag Race’ a little bit.’ – Courtney Act
‘What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.’ – Leo Sayer
‘The kind of encouragement I had as a child to continue sports was brilliant. Like any other family, my people asked me to stress more on studies rather than swimming. But, my mother said ‘He enjoys it and should balance both studies and sports.” – Milind Soman
‘Stress is a good thing, of course. Hunger, thirst are both stresses; if not for them, we would not survive. It is only the way we deal with stress that we need to examine.’ – Milind Soman
‘All stress can be used to better yourself, each individual has to understand how to use that particular stress – whether it is in your relationship, personal life, your own thoughts about yourself – to become a better person.’ – Milind Soman
‘I cannot stress this enough: the difference between a bowl and a smoothie is the time it spends in the blender.’ – Brad Leone
‘Some people get fat when they’re miserable; certainly this was true of my teenage self, but as an adult, deliver me a week of extreme stress and misery and watch me disappear.’ – Sophie Dahl
‘Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.’ – Owen Jones
‘I’m a runner by hobby and by nature of stress relief and staying fit.’ – Kate Gosselin
‘I’ve learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don’t even make my radar anymore.’ – Kate Gosselin
‘The secret to a great Halloween costume, and I can’t stress this enough, is in my opinion is to extract sexuality out of your costume.’ – Sharon Needles
‘As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is – when there is a new environmental challenge, how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a molecular level how a neuron dies after a stroke, a seizure, Alzheimer’s, brain aging, and what these stress hormones do to make it worse.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘That’s what stress management is about, that’s what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby – any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Well, much of my research over the years has been on stress, and the adverse effects of stress on the health of the central nervous system. All things considered, I’ve been astonishingly unhelped by my own research.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘You don’t want to end up telling somebody who’s homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn’t in those cases. But most of us have fairly neurotic middle-class stressors.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘If you turn on the stress response chronically for purely psychological reasons, you increase your risk of adult-onset diabetes and high blood pressure.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘One definitely wants to have a functioning hippocampus. It’s all about learning and memory, the part blown out of the water by Alzheimer’s disease. It’s also the part that is most vulnerable to the effects of stress.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression.’ – Robert Sapolsky
‘But I can’t stress enough how much talking helps. I was so reluctant at first; I didn’t think it would help. But even if there’s no answer to your troubles, they will seem so much smaller once they leave your head.’ – Oliver Sykes
‘I can’t stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation’s affairs.’ – Abby Martin
‘Most artists – painters or writers – I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It’s about getting things off of your chest, and it’s a means of venting in many ways. That’s what my work is about.’ – Aesop Rock
‘People don’t stress enough that when they’re writing lyrics, they are writing.’ – Aesop Rock
‘I think there’s loads of undiagnosed depression where I came from. Post-traumatic stress disorder as well. Some of the things you see as a kid are like the things you’d expect to see in a war zone, but there’s no one to talk to about it because running to a psychiatrist ain’t the thing.’ – Dizzee Rascal
‘Of course, social networking is essential. The feedback helps me grow. And it’s a real stress buster.’ – Vijay Antony
‘There’s always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and put on a great show for the fans and live up to being a main event. That doesn’t really stress me out or pressure me anymore. The fight is enough.’ – Dustin Poirier
‘When I’m working out and eating healthily, it’s easier to manage the stresses and schedule demands that are a reality in media.’ – Shannon Bream
‘I may not have made humongous sum of money through acting, but I have enough to lead a stress free life.’ – Sowcar Janaki
‘It’s when you begin to deal with stress mentally, physically and emotionally, that you can be truly fit.’ – Rahul Dev
‘I love dancing as it is a great stress buster.’ – Sanjeeda Sheikh
‘When you are working under stress you are bound to have different thoughts and opinion. But that doesn’t mean one starts fighting.’ – Sanjeeda Sheikh
‘If you are anxious, if you doubt yourself, if you stress over everything, it ultimately means you really care about what you do.’ – Amy Macdonald
‘Kids in Flint don’t even know that you can write to express your feelings and go to the gym and work out, you can run, you can do whatever you love to help relieve stress.’ – Claressa Shields
‘Diffusers not only leave your home smelling clean and fresh, but the oils that you choose to use in it can leave you feeling refreshed and stress free!’ – Denise Austin
‘Because there’s no bouncing, jarring, or stress to your body, Pilates offers the ideal form of exercise for people who, because of joint pain or muscle weakness, shy away from exercise.’ – Denise Austin
‘Exercise is a great way to get rid of stress and anxiety. It clears the head and gets rid of all that stuff that is annoying you and really isn’t all that important. It filters out any grouchie-ness – it’s a great mental filter.’ – Denise Austin
‘Constant slumping increases the stress on the spine and joints, and can lead to headaches, neck and shoulder tension, and lower-back pain.’ – Denise Austin
‘The stress on the moral basis of policy and action, belief in unity and discipline, faith in a synthesis of heritage and science, and promotion of the rule of law and of education – all of it is located in a partnership between citizen and government.’ – Ram Nath Kovind
‘An abnormality on a mammogram can turn a woman’s life upside down, even if no cancer is ultimately found. At the very least, she will have to undergo more tests, usually with a biopsy as a first step. The procedure takes its toll in time and money and even more so in the stress it introduces into a woman’s life.’ – Margaret Cuomo
‘Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.’ – Margaret Cuomo
‘With what I’ve gone through, that’s why I try to not let a lot of stuff stress me out.’ – Jeff Green
‘Our family has always drawn on the power from above to comfort us in times of despair and stress.’ – Martin Luther King III
‘I’ve been busily lifting weights since I was 14, but in college I started running as a way to reduce stress, as I recall.’ – Drew Pinsky
‘People take social media too seriously. It should be something that is fun, something that inspires you, not stresses you out.’ – Ananya Panday
‘I eliminated stress by eliminating people that I don’t enjoy working with.’ – Jim Cornette
‘You know being an actor you have to deal with a lot of criticism which is not easy, and that leads to stress. So, you have to train your mind to deal with it.’ – Neha Sharma
‘My personality is such that I mostly tend to imagine the worst case scenario, which stresses me out a lot.’ – Neha Sharma
‘I believe in spending money to make your home the perfect sanctuary away from work and the stress of everyday life.’ – Hilary Farr
‘Every big moment has stresses and lessons that you take into your managerial career. You can pass it down to the lads who work under you. And everybody knows you handled it.’ – Paul Lambert
‘Forget the stress of trying to find a taxi while you freeze. Ubers make you feel like you have a personal driver… a luxury!’ – Tinsley Mortimer
‘Rap makes the conservative argument about what happens when family life is eroded either by welfare and drugs, or by the stresses and indulgences of middle-class life.’ – Shelby Steele
‘People who drop litter really stress me out. I have been known to chase after people and say, ‘Sorry, but you’ve forgotten something,’ and then hand it back to them.’ – Ainsley Harriott
‘You can take the stress out of Christmas by trying to be as organised as you possibly can.’ – Holly Willoughby
‘When evaluating the players, too little emphasis is placed on the individual. Reaction times are measured, stress situations are simulated, sleep behaviour is analysed, eating behaviour, how the body reacts – everything is available. The control over the players has got out of hand. They are judged on this data, albeit subjectively. That’s madness.’ – Michael Ballack
‘For many people, Christmas is indeed the most wonderful time of year. But the festive period can also bring its own unique stresses and strains. But don’t despair: there are solutions to many – if not all – of these issues.’ – Ellie Taylor
‘I’m used to things changing, I’m used to having to keep going and not really stopping to think and stress out.’ – Julia Fox
‘My job as a leader is not to put more stress into a system that is already stressed.’ – Julie Sweet
‘I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don’t have time to sit with yourself and think.’ – Nadine Coyle
‘Exercise clears my brain of the stresses of poker’s ups and downs, and allows me to re-focus my mind on the next day.’ – Phil Hellmuth
‘The neoliberal policies implemented first by the Thatcher governments in the 1980s and continued by New Labour and the current coalition have resulted in a privatisation of stress.’ – Mark Fisher
‘People talk without knowing the real Cristiano. He’s a normal person with normal habits like us. He likes his relatives. He loves his sons. He stresses the importance of being a father which I think is important. He’s does this perfectly and naturally.’ – Pepe
‘In times of stress, it is easy to look to one’s weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that London’s cultural strengths are not some ephemeral dot-com bubble; they are a real, tangible legacy of decades of investment in talent.’ – Munira Mirza
‘We have to put the best team to offer a secure alternative to Singaporeans – let me stress, the best team, not the best individuals… The party must comprise members who work with others and not march to their own drumbeat.’ – Pritam Singh
‘When I joined AC Milan I didn’t play for six months. But I was training under a great coach in Carlo Ancelotti. I can’t stress how important those six months were – they changed my life.’ – Thiago Silva
‘After the 1970s, we accomplished economic development rapidly. But the side effect of that was high stress levels or the gap between the rich and poor. And these issues call on me to focus on the welfare and quality of life of the citizens.’ – Park Won-soon
‘I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can’t write about other things.’ – Thomas Chatterton Williams
‘We are able to relieve stress by leaning on each other. We often hang out at our home, order takeout food, and talk openly about our feelings. We are all there for each other.’ – Momo Hirai
‘We need to laugh and laugh loud because this is the only way to handle stress.’ – Binnu Dhillon
‘Drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Try not to stress. Positive thoughts only!’ – Dahyun
‘Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930. Yet nowadays our biggest challenges are not leisure and boredom, but stress and uncertainty.’ – Rutger Bregman
‘There’s a lot of things in Formula One that can stress you and it’s important to have good family and good support from home as well. I’m really glad that I have that.’ – Kevin Magnussen
‘When you have done your job well at the training ground, when you know your player is following you, there is no reason to stress the match day.’ – Andrea Radrizzani
‘So I think it’s like the night before the exam. Obviously, you stress. But when you have done your job well, then you need to go down, relax and enjoy.’ – Andrea Radrizzani
‘Performers put their heart and soul into their art, and can be subject to highly personal attacks and criticism. The tone and language of reviews, or commentary on social media, can be bruising and severe. Everyone is a critic. All of this adds to the stress and anxiety suffered by people in the performing arts.’ – Luciana Berger
‘I’m not an artist that vents through my music. I don’t do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.’ – Redfoo
‘Make no mistake, the days and hours before going into the ring can be stressful for any boxer. The bigger and tougher the fight the greater stress, But if a boxer knows he’s stepping out of his league it’s even worse.’ – Carl Froch
‘When you marry a triple Virgo, there’s no way to meditate the stress away.’ – Jeremiah Brent
‘I was just proud of myself that, even under extreme stress and adversity, I was still able to do my job and do it well. And still able to earn an income while in prison.’ – Michael Sorrentino
‘Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists’ constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.’ – Claire Fox