Stressful Times Quotes:

Respond to stressful times by turning towards each other, rather than away from each other.

- Tim DeChristopher

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Stressful, Away From Each Other, Stressful Times

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

- Hans Selye

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

- Natalie Goldberg

source: FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

topic: Stress, Believe, Ignorant, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Funny, Leadership, Stress, Inspirational Stress, Leading Causes

Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

- Kathleen Parker

topic: Nice, Ideas, America, Stressful Times

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

topic: Stress, Matter, Advantage, Stressful Times

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

- Jeri Ryan

topic: Thinking, Looks, Fantasy, Stressful Times

Even though it was a stressful time in my life, I have a lot of good memories from my Idol experience.

- Jessica Sanchez

source: "A Conversation with Jessica Sanchez". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.

topic: Memories, Idols, Stressful, Stressful Times

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

- Kate Morton

source: Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Air, Woe, Stressful Times

It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

- Helen Fisher

topic: Men, Wife, Endurance, Famine, Stressful Times

The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

- John Medina

source: John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.48, Pear Press

topic: People, What If, Unhappy, Medina, Starting A Family