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.
Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
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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.
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.
I’d like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war – a cool place where everyone could live.
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.
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
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.
Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you’re there for everything.
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.
Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I’m doing this.
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.
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.
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.
I live an hour from NASA’s HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.
Yoga is great for easing my back pain. It also helps me keep stress at bay, which is something I can suffer from.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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.
Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
Baking is fun! I find it very therapeutic, a stress buster.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.
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.
I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.
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.
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.
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.
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
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.
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I try not to take pressure because that it just stresses you out.
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?
Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
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.
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?
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.
It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.
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.
Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don’t remember what life was like without it.
