Stressful Quotations

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

It's 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.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.

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

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

I think the most important thing about the Emmys stuff is just to enjoy it. It can get really stressful in weird ways, and I have definitely experienced that. This year, I really just want to have it be a fun celebration!

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.

What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.

I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I'm certainly not the first person to be working while I'm in university.

My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.

It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.

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

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

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top shape after finishing well in the Tour and later having the time to prepare himself and spend time with his family without being troubled by injuries, illness or stressful contract negotiations. But just before a race starts you always get a little nervous anyway.

Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

We're just going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

Netanyahu feels the heat, ... In any stressful situation he immediately panics and loses his cool.

One of the things you can't hide is how a player is going to play in the most stressful conditions, when the big lights are on. You throw them into the fire, you see how they respond. You know if they're a player or not. You can just see it in their face. You can see it their confidence level. And in those two, they responded the best in the biggest game.

One piece of advice... ... Can I use several words? Be prepared for how all-consuming parliamentary life can be but don't be daunted by it. With discipline and camaraderie with your caucus and getting on top of the processes of parliament and parliamentary life, you will be able to work out your work-life balance regarding this job. It is most worthwhile doing if you're a person that wishes to make a privileged contribution to your country and your electorate. It is worthwhile, but don't forget that for you, the person, to function to your peak ability in parliament in quite stressful situations, you must look after you, the person, from time to time and that requires emotional support. And physical nourishment for yourself is important.

Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

Peyton comes to the line, and he checks to a pass or a run, and I come to the line, and I check from a blitz to a zone, ... I think it's great for the fans to see, but it's actually more stressful when you're on the field, because you're actually trying to figure out truly their next move. He's good at it.

Personally, I think I am much calmer under incredibly stressful situations, and I've learned to deal with pressure and nerves, which is key to being a performer of any caliber.

One thing is to not avoid the recognition that this is a stressful life experience and there's no way to gloss over it,

I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

I don't even know what to say to you guys any more. It's been a stressful month-and-a-half. It feels like 25 pounds off my back and my shoulders.

I am very excited about working with Rodmell Press owners Donald Moyer and Linda Cogozzo, who really understand what this book is all about, and about why healthy breathing is so important in today's stressful world.

I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you're doing at all times - it can be a little stressful at times.

I had to travel back to the U.S. and I wasn't in a comfortable, happy place and I didn't really get to train; I had to prepare for racing. And then I had to come back over to Europe and I was tired from this incredibly stressful race experience.

I had totally anticipated being ready to play last January because my doctor had said three months, blah-blah-blah. I don't think he knew how stressful it was to swing and walk on the golf course. My foot never healed. Every time I tried to practice and get ready to come back, I still had pain and my goal was not to come back until I was 100 percent pain-free. By the time this year started, I still wasn't 100 percent. In Hawaii, I could still feel it. I still feel it now but I can swing without pain. I think walking the last month has been the final healing process. Right now, it finally feels good.

I felt like I got a 25-pound weight off my back. It's been a while, and it's been a stressful long month and a half.

I can't devote or focus on one issue for very long because there's always something else. That's the most stressful thing. The other big fear is that I'm going to overlook some deadline or responsibility.

For me, the most stressful part of the last 10 months has been that Codey and I have much different philosophies of business,

He was only hospitalized because of stress. We have a stressful job.

He was in a stressful situation that day.

There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.

I would support a reduction in sickness absence, but the executive must address pressures that force too many people to work too many hours in stressful conditions.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

It can be labor intensive. But with any industry, machines make it possible to complete the job fastest and make it less stressful on the employees. We've been integrating these machines into our repairs a little at a time the past 20 years or so.

It became so stressful because a lot of the workers couldn't understand what I was saying,

I think it's great. Also I think it's good for them to have this class at the end of the day. It's a nice time for them to decompress and it's not a stressful environment.

It is nice to be at home. I think it gives us kind of the relaxed atmosphere with competition that we really want right now before we get into some more stressful situations.

It is a stressful situation and really tough on your sleeping habits. Hopefully, I can get something good this week, and I can sleep really well all next year.

People are on the go so much more these days. People aren't home as much as they used to be. They want things in their place so it is less stressful when they are home.

Our biggest allies are the local development offices and councils. They're the people who get the flak from the business people who are attracted to Kent because it's more rural and less stressful than the city, but if they can't get metropolitan-quality communications, they're going to think about it.

Lonely people differ from non-lonely individuals in their tendency to perceive stressful circumstances as threatening rather than challenging, and to passively cope with stress by failing to solicit instrumental and emotional support and by withdrawing from stress rather than by actively coping and attempting to problem solve.

Looking for a job is stressful no matter what. Especially, you get your first job, 'Oh, I can relax,' then to have that possibility. I'm not really looking forward to going out and looking for a job but if I have to, I will, but I'd rather be here.

I was happy to get it out of the way, a lot of times it can be stressful to have that. Now I can concentrate on other things like improving my race.

It does get tiring. The past few weeks have been the most stressful we've had in a while.

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.

The Arkansas-Oklahoma State Fair would do the animals and the public a favor by banning exotic-animal acts. Tearing babies from their mothers for stressful and potentially dangerous public contact isn't wholesome family entertainment.

I was really happy and excited and relieved. It was a stressful interview.

Most CPAs do between 45 to 50 percent of their work in two months out of the year. It makes for an extremely stressful time,

You learn to train the mind to stay more focused. We?re not always present. We?re usually thinking about the past or worrying about the future, which creates stress and emotional anxiety. If you find the balance between effort and relaxation and don?t let your mind get carried away, you can react to that stress. You?re able to stay more calm and centered during a stressful situation.

Yeah, we want to beat Virginia Tech. At the same time, a kid's health is the most important thing. It was a very tough weekend for him. It was very stressful on his body, much less his mind.

The presidency is probably the most stressful job in the world. It's good from time to time for him to get away to a new location.

We're not seeing a whole lot of it yet, but we're concerned that we're going to be seeing a lot more of it in the next three to five years. Our lifestyles are so fast-paced and stressful now that people are using more of these gadgets constantly, and that's where the problem starts.

We played well enough to win game one. That's the bottom line. It was very stressful though because we didn't score until the seventh inning.

When people are going to their closing, it's an extremely stressful time. So we let people use the car to try to make them as comfortable as possible. After they sign the papers, we drive them to the house, we give them champagne and take their picture with the car out front.

Trying to manage money in this environment, you can't imagine how stressful this is.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

With all the stuff that's been going on, it was kind of a breath of fresh air, a good distraction. It was incongruent to what was going on. It was fun for some of the people - not for Elijah because it's a stressful time.

What kept me going through those losing years is I love basketball. I've had a lot of fun. At 2-22, there were some stressful days but I always wanted to come back the next day and try to do something better.

There is nothing to indicate that this was a stressful situation.

Even though I talk about them every day, I was still incredibly nervous and shaken. It was a stressful situation.

As stressful as the holidays are, they can be even more so for those who have recently experienced the death of a loved one. Many people fail to realize they don't have to do things exactly as they have in the past. They can make changes to make the holiday season easier. Failing to consider changes often adds to the stress level and makes dealing with the situation even harder.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

During any critical incident like this-or any stressful event-officers can be placed on administrative assignments pending an outcome of the internal affairs investigation,

First of all we are concerned about him. I think each of us went up to him and wanted to make sure he's OK. He's a great player, a great team-mate so we want the best for David. He says he's playing great and feels fine so we have to go with what he says. We're going to make sure none of his playing partners put him in stressful situations.

There's pressure all the time. It's stressful going to a premiere and having to look perfect, and everybody scrutinizes what you're wearing. It's scary. There's so much emphasis put on the physical.

I've been through some hard times ... and have lived on the edge, but I have never experienced real hunger. It is a stressful experience ... Many poor families are experiencing hunger. It is inhuman.

I've come to realize we are dealing with families at extremely stressful and volatile times. There is no blueprint for how someone is supposed to respond to tragic news.

Things started out really rough for us. We had a lot of kids who came in late from basketball and soccer, so it took them a while to catch up. But starting out 0-8 was pretty tough and stressful and that was because I anticipated us having a really good season.

The whole recruiting process is always a stressful deal. You start getting paranoid, but the beautiful thing is we got all of them in.

The workplace is often the most stressful place a person finds themselves in, employees and managers need to keep an eye out for signs of deteriorating mental health in fellow colleagues.

I've now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You haven't quite banked the one you just wrapped and are wondering, 'Did I do that right?' 'Could I have done that better?'