Divya Dutta Quotes

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

… a job of infinite stress

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

There will always be a lot of pressure to cope with.

You know, I have been thinking about this a lot, and of course I had great stress during all this election campaign. And a lot of times, I was ready to step away because I wasn't sure that I had enough strength to continue.

Football is constant pressure, from day to day. You need to know how to live with that.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

Today's generation has tremendous pressure to perform well at work. And if one can't match up to expectations then it can lead to depression.