Quotes and Sayings About Stress
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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 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 -
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
-- Aaron Copland -
A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
-- Aaron Hoopes -
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
-- Aaron Levie -
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
-- Aaron Levie -
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
-- Aaron SiskindSource : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
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You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.
-- Adele -
No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.
-- Adele Scheele -
Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
-- Adyashanti -
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
-- Aesop -
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
-- Agnes Repplier -
The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.
-- Ai Yazawa -
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 -
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
-- Alan Garner -
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
-- Alan Greenspan -
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
-- Albert PikeSource : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
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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 SalazarSource : Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.
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Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.
-- Alex Caceres -
The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
-- Alex KingstonSource : "Intensive care" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2002.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.
-- Alexander Lowen -
The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.
-- Alexandra Kotur -
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Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
-- Alexis BledelSource : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.
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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