Stressful Quotes - Page 3

• There's nothing like a stressful day.

  Trent Reznor

  Stressful Day

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• There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Stress, Thinking

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• The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

  Jeff Galloway

  Journey, Challenges, Negative

  Jeff Galloway (2001). “Marathon: You Can Do It!”, p.80, Shelter Publications, Inc.

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• You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.

  Mike Weir

  Fun, Golf, Worry

  Sky Sports Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Growing Up, Disappointment

  "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.

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• The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life.

  Ariana Grande

  Children, Trying, Celery

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• There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Games, Stressful Situations

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• I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

  Dick Cheney

  Believe, Heart, Disease

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• You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

  Diablo Cody

  Ugly, Fame, Glad

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• Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Stressed, Stressed Out, Honeymoon

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• I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

  Jack Osbourne

  Grateful, Eye, Support

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Media, Attention, Firsts

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• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  Karen O

  Pain, Risk, Promise

  "Karen O’s Psycho Opera Will Be A ‘Psychedelic Ride Laced With Catharsis’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• 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

  People, What If, Unhappy

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

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• There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Thinking, Aquariums, People

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• One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Suffering, Realization

  "How I Learned To Stop Suffering" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

  Jay-Z

  Men, Fire, Ice Cream

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• Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Stupid, Thinking, Criminals

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• As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

  Sean Plott

  Nice, Confusing, May

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2013

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• In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Encouragement, Past, Opportunity

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.34, Middleway Press

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• The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

  Brad Faxon

  Sports, Cheer, Golf

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• Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.

  Hunter Hayes

  Stress, Hours, I Can

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• I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

  Naomie Harris

  Character, Thinking, Done

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• Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Night, Gone

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• They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

  Justin Guarini

  Math, Missing, Important

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