stress factors Quotes

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything that keeps them from being played with gives them stress - things like getting lost, getting broken.

I expected social rank to be the determining factor in health, and in some ways that's true. But far more important is what sort of society that rank occurs in. Being low ranking in a benevolent troop is a hell of a lot better for your blood pressure than being low ranking in an aggressive troop.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

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 really see that socio-economic constraints and pressure contribute to our mental health in a big way. You come to realize that it's all mental health.

Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.

Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression.

There are certain things that don't mix well with MS. One is staying up late at night. Another is big, noisy crowds. Well, campaigns are staying up late at night and big noisy crowds.

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

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

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

I think running for president causes more stress.

Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

I think the most stressful thing in movies is when the weather is really random.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.