Stress Response Quotes

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

I have the most nervous stomach in the world.

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

Your body releases a natural endorphin when you're fighting. You don't feel pain.

High levels of stress can lead to weakened immunity, rendering animals much more susceptible to disease. This makes the average poultry factory farm a hotbed for outbreaks of avian flu.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

First I stopped believing in hell, then the afterlife. Sometimes that connection is still there, and I'll feel an impulse to pray if I'm stressed or upset.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

I don't get stressed out.

When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.