Stress Quotes - Page 39

• 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

  War, College, Benefits

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• When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

  Aaron Levie

  Passionate, Bugs

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• 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

  Dark, Technology, Progress

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Math, Perfect, Peculiar

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Knowing, Relaxation, Tables

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• Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.

  Eamonn Coghlan

  Motivational, Running, Stronger

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• I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

  Ira Glass

  Inspirational, Graduation, Iphone

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• It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Love, Peace, Thinking

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• Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available, using it to facilitate appropriate behavior and healthy development - as well as to alleviate stress and sickness - among members of their community and/or for the community as a whole.

  Stanley Krippner

  Community, Healthy, Attention

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• The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

  Steve Almond

  Giving Up, Taken, Stories

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• The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Skills, What Matters, Self

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• When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Resilience, Under Stress, You Choose

  "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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• When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Views, Helpful, Biology

  "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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• According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Sports, Religious, Yoga

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, www.businessinsider.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Motivation, Compassion, Self

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, 2012.

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• 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.

  Anne Bancroft

  Strong, Doubt, May

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• 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

  Teacher, Educational, Responsibility

  Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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• Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Disappointment, Long, Skins

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• 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

  Workout, Yoga, Breathing

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• By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Healing, Meditation

  Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Openness mind”, Dharma Pub

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• The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

  Margaret Halsey

  One Direction, Mobility, Facts

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• 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

  Mean, Government, Worry

  "Economic Debate: Laffer vs. Liesman". "The Kudlow Report" Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. February 26, 2009.

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• As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Emotional, Essentials

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• Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature therapy, as you do for the latest antidepressant pharmaceuticals. But parents, educators, and health workers need to know what a useful antidote to emotional and physical stress nature can be. Especially now.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Healing, Emotional

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Response

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