Stress Quotes - Page 22

• Less mess, less stress. That's my rule! If you don't stay on top of decluttering, it can get out of control. I maintain as much as possible. I'll do seasonal edits and decide what we can toss or donate. If we don't love it, need it or haven't used it in the past year, it's gone.

  Molly Sims

  Past, Mess, Donate

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• The Hoh Valley is an incredibly secure area. Any event occurs around us, we will instantly become informed of that event. This can even happen at a distance. When the body recognizes that you have a very large listening area, and you're getting all the information, the body relaxes. You can breathe more gently, the cortisol levels that are created by stress in our bloodstream dissipate, and we actually become healthier. And as a result, if we are actually fortunate enough to live in a place like that, we will live longer.

  Gordon Hempton

  Distance, Listening, Relax

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People associate hard work and overload with stress. But, like suffering, stress is complicated. Bad stress is stress that a system can't endure without suffering damage. It is unplanned, uncontrolled, allows no time for rest and recovery, and exceeds the capacity of the system to adjust to it. As the popular phrase suggests, it burns people out and, over time, it can decimate an entire workforce.

  Edward Hallowell

  Recovery, Hard Work, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Try to keep your mouth shut until you have a job offer, especially if your move is not entirely certain. There are only a few cases in which I think it would be appropriate to tell your boss what's going on. For example, if your spouse is being forced to relocate, obviously you are going to go, and if you have a good relationship with your boss, then it might take some stress off of you to tell the truth. The general rule, though, is not to give your employer more power over your destiny than you have yourself.

  Alexandra Levit

  Moving, Destiny, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Here, we have a country that is making its veterans, people who are struggling with post-traumatic stress, people who are struggling with depression, who often they're only hope is their access to marijuana to treat these illnesses, and here we are criminalizing them for doing what's necessary to stabilize their lives as a result of their service. This is not who we are as a country. We are better than this.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Struggle, Marijuana

  Source: hightimes.com

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• There are days when you might enjoy being an editor a little less, due to one crisis or another. It is absolutely vital, to me, in a period of technological evolution and sometimes financial stress that I and my colleagues not only put out a fantastic magazine and Web site and all the rest, but also that we are smart enough about what we are doing.

  David Remnick

  Smart, Evolution, Financial

  Source: wwd.com

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• The interesting thing about the ACE study, as it began in the 1990s, is that it was based on a very strict set of ten questions. But what is evolving from that is a better understanding what kind of experiences are beyond the ten questions, and what kind of stressors it generates, there are so many ways that children can be exposed to ongoing stress.

  James Redford

  Children, Interesting, Understanding

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I was putting too much stress on my body and not living a healthy life style, I wasn't taking care of myself. I was able to turn that around by having a belief in myself and trusting God and then doing what it took to get healthy again.

  John Assaraf

  Healthy, Style, Body

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

  Daniel Goleman

  Spiritual, Goal, Perspective

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• People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  War, Thinking, Years

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• [W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.

  Myrna Blyth

  Two, Long Walks, Media

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• When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.

  Tom Rath

  Communication, Home, Talking

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Funeral, Cost, Way

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies.

  Karen Rose

  Home, Energy, Negative

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

  Ezra Pound

  Objectivity, Expression, Moss

  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

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• The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

  William Safire

  Jobs, Exercise, Careers

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• There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, First Impression, Haste

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself.

  Penney Peirce

  Being Yourself, Feels

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• Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.

  Chad Pennington

  Fun, Perfect, Trying

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• All I know for sure is that dreams are the pictures of states wanting to turn into processes.  Dreams are maps of the beginning of an otherwise unchartered trip into the unknown.  They are pictures of the unknown which appear in many channels.  Because process work is body-oriented, I put a stress upon feelings, but dreams are not pictures of just feelings; they are pictures of the way the unknown is showing itself in a given moment.

  Arnold Mindell

  Dream, Feelings, Maps

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• 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

  Country, Germany, Television

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• Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.

  Mary Davis

  Letting Go, Worry, Mind

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• Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Nerves, Pressure

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• Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.

  Douglas Adams

  Wheels, Take A Deep Breath, Plans

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• Beginning today, make the decision to love and accept yourself just the way you are. Say your name followed by the words "I love you" and make this your daily mantra, repeating it often, especially during times of stress. Let it be your first thought upon arising and the last you think before falling asleep at night. This simple act of self-courtship can profoundly change your world. Try it for yourself and see. Make a personal decision to be in love with the most beautiful, exciting, worthy person ever - you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beautiful, Fall, Love You

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